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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Starcompliance

Starcompliance · Leeds, United Kingdom · Hybrid

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Description

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 

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