AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

StarCompliance | Financial services compliance software

3 hours 19 minutes ago

On-site

Full Time

United Kingdom

Role:

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is an experienced individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure supporting a production-grade, multi-account B2B SaaS platform in the financial services industry.

This role is critical to maintaining platform resilience, security, automation maturity, and operational excellence across production and non-production environments. The engineer operates with moderate autonomy, owning defined areas of the AWS environment while contributing to infrastructure standards, reliability engineering, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments

Support application deployments and underlying platform services required for reliable operation

Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Configure and maintain AWS services including compute, storage, networking, and managed services

Monitor infrastructure health, availability, and performance; respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis

Partner with application engineering and security teams to support system reliability and scalability

Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions

Support automation related to infrastructure provisioning and application deployments

Manage IAM roles, permissions, and access controls in alignment with security policies

Contribute to cloud cost monitoring and optimization efforts

Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures

Participate in on-call or incident response rotations as required

Core AWS & Cloud Technologies

Compute & Containers

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)

Amazon EC2

Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

AWS Lambda (event-driven workloads)

Networking & Edge

Amazon VPC (multi-AZ design, subnet segmentation)

Internet Gateway (IGW)

VPC Peering

Elastic Load Balancing (ALB)

AWS WAF

Amazon Route 53

AWS Data Transfer optimization

Databases & Caching

Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) and PSQL

Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB compatibility)

Amazon ElastiCache (Redis)

Messaging & Streaming

Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka)

Security & Compliance

AWS IAM

AWS KMS

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Config

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon Inspector

AWS WAF

Auth0

Monitoring & Observability

Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, events)

CI/CD & DevOps

CircleCI

BitBucket

Github

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Storage & Data Lifecycle

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Managed Platform Services

AWS Transfer Family

Amazon WorkSpaces (administrative environments)

Skills and Experience

Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS environments in a multi-account architecture.

Deep experience with containerized platforms (ECS) and distributed system design.

Proven experience managing relational and document databases in high-availability configurations.

Strong understanding of secure VPC architecture, ingress/egress control, and network isolation strategies.

Experience operating Kafka-based streaming architectures (MSK).

Expertise implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform.

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.

Strong knowledge of IAM design, encryption practices, and secrets management.

Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation for production systems.

Ability to troubleshoot performance, networking, scaling, and availability issues across distributed systems.

Experience supporting regulated or compliance-sensitive environments (e.g., financial services).

Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and code development while maintaining security and compliance standards.

Strong judgment in the responsible use of AI tools to enhance productivity, improve code quality, and streamline operational workflows within regulated environments.

Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems engineering roles.

AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred.

Integrity and Ethics

All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner

Required Skills

awskafkabitbucketci/cdcirclecicontainerizationdatabasesdistributed_systemsgithubinfrastructure_as_codemongodbpostgresqlredisterraform

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English