About the Role
Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure that underpins key platforms and services as the organisation continues its transition to cloud. Work as a hands-on AWS engineer, focused on delivering secure, scalable, and highly available environments. Take ownership of components of the migration and operation of business-critical platforms and services within AWS.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles
- Support production and non-production environments with a focus on availability, performance, and security
- Deliver backend infrastructure operations including server management, updates, storage, failover, and logging
- Build and maintain core AWS services across compute, networking, storage, and identity (e.g. EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch)
- Collaborate with application, DevOps, and security teams to deliver resilient cloud solutions
- Integrate infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable deployments
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices
- Investigate incidents, contribute to root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement
- Support security, compliance, and audit requirements within cloud environments, including regulated or security-sensitive contexts
- Work with cloud partners and vendors, including AWS and third parties, on architecture reviews and optimisation
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational processes to reduce manual effort
- Document infrastructure, standards, and operational processes
- Primary working hours aligned to European time zones. Participation in a global on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
- Strong knowledge of core AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, containers, storage, and monitoring
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar)
- Understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity management
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems
- Familiarity with cloud migration initiatives
- Experience integrating infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
- Exposure to containerised workloads or orchestration platforms (e.g. ECS, EKS)
- Experience working within regulated or security-focused environments
- Experience working with distributed teams
- AWS certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator) are beneficial
Skills
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Clear communication across technical and non-technical teams
- Collaborative approach to working with engineering, security, and operations
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload effectively
- Adaptability in a changing environment
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
Location
- United Kingdom
Work Type
- Onsite
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
Benefits
- Clear career pathways
- Growth opportunities
- Recognition for achievements
- A global, collaborative team
- Support for innovation and sustainability
About the Company
- Work on meaningful cloud transformation initiatives, helping to move critical platforms into AWS.
- Contribute to real-world infrastructure challenges while collaborating with experienced teams across the organisation.
- Develop AWS expertise, expand technical capability, and operate in an environment that values collaboration, learning, and practical problem solving.
- Securitas Technology is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants are welcome.
Equal Opportunity
- Securitas Technology is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants are welcome.
