Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Bristol
11 months ago
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Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Bristol
Hybrid Working
£60k - £70k + Benefits

Due to the nature of the work that the consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

You must be a British national or British Passport holder to undergo SC Clearance - Security Clearance

I am recruiting for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer for my client who are a top tier 1 consultancy that provide services into the defence, central government and engineering world.

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Benefits:

Flexible Working
Competitive salary
25 days' holiday entitlement
Holiday purchase scheme
Company pension scheme
Targeted professional development
Life assurance
Private healthcare membership
Bonus scheme linked into company performance
Paid membership fees to a professional institution
Support in attaining professional membership
Cycle to work scheme
Share purchase scheme
Season rail ticket loan
Individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply, as we believe that diversity and inclusion are fundamental to creating a dynamic and thriving workplace culture.Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Responsibilities:

Building horizon scanning applications, providing novel data analytics for the whole of science and technology with graph databases, big datasets and natural language processing in AWS.
Building novel simulations of distributed autonomous systems architectures using cloud infrastructure and messaging with Python, Kafka and Azure.
Helping an energy customer to maintain critical infrastructure by developing a data processing application, database and API to store 40 years of inspections data and enable data analytics and condition monitoring on this using ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Postgres and C#.Senior AWS Cloud Engineer Skills:

Significant experience leading the design and deployment of complex cloud solutions to AWS
At least 1 Object-Oriented Language (Python or C# ideally)
Experience with containerisation of applications
An ability to discuss and present complex topics in an understandable way
Consultancy skills in stakeholder management, business development and requirements elicitation
Excellent interpersonal skills to enable internal and external network developmentIt is to your advantage if you meet any of the following additional requirements:

Certifications in AWS
Using and managing Azure DevOps projects or Similar
Managing and delivering the development of solutions with a team of people using Agile approaches
Database design and management for Relational or NoSQLServices advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business.
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