IT Systems Engineer (AWS)
Permanent | 1 day per week Hybrid Working in Cardiff | South Wales
Are you an experienced IT Systems/Support Engineer looking for an opportunity to shape cloud strategy, influence technical decisions, and take ownership of a growing multi-cloud environment?
We're supporting a well-established organisation undergoing a significant digital transformation programme. As part of this journey, they're looking to appoint a IT Cloud Systems Engineer to help lead the design, security, operation and continuous improvement of their cloud platforms.
This role will suit someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, enjoys working across multiple teams, and wants to play a key role in delivering secure, resilient and scalable cloud services. This role isn't a leadership role with no reporting lines but you would be sitting within a Senior position in a team of 5.
The Role
As the IT Systems Engineer, you'll act as the organisation's cloud subject matter expert, taking primary responsibility for AWS environments while also supporting a small esate of Azure, Microsoft 365 services and on prem systems. Broadly speaking, their estate is approx 75% AWS, 10-15% Azure and 10% legacy/on prem.
You'll be responsible for designing, implementing and managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring platforms remain secure, cost-effective, highly available and aligned to best practice.
Working closely with infrastructure, development, cyber security and support teams, you'll provide both hands-on engineering expertise and strategic technical guidance.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Support
- Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure across AWS and small areas in Azure (Azure experience is desrible and not essential)
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and similar technologies)
- Design secure multi-account environments, networking and connectivity solutions
- Define cloud standards, patterns and engineering best practices
- Support the organisation's ongoing digital transformation initiatives
Resilience & Operations
- Manage monitoring, performance and availability across cloud environments
- Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
- Provide 3rd line support for cloud-related incidents and technical issues
- Support service reliability and operational excellence
Security, Identity & Governance
- Implement and maintain secure identity and access management controls
- Integrate AWS workloads with Microsoft Entra ID
- Manage cloud-native security services, monitoring and alerting
- Work alongside cyber security teams to improve security posture and reduce risk
Cost & Performance Optimisation
- Monitor cloud consumption and costs
- Implement governance, reporting and optimisation measures
- Balance performance, resilience and commercial efficiency
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
- Hands-on AWS engineering experience within an enterprise or commercial environment
- Experience acting as a cloud SME or technical authority
- Experience designing and operating secure cloud platforms
- Strong infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code experience
- Experience working closely with cyber security teams
Technical Skills
- AWS EC2, Auto Scaling and Load Balancing
- VPC design, networking and connectivity
- RDS and managed database services
- Lambda and event-driven architectures
- IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager and Parameter Store
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail and AWS Config
- GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF and other AWS security services
- AWS Organizations
- Azure networking, virtual machines and monitoring
- Microsoft Entra ID, MFA and Conditional Access
- AWS and Azure identity integration
Desirable
- Microsoft 365 administration and governance
- IBM Cloud exposure
- Hybrid or multi-cloud experience
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation programmes
- Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC and SAML
Certifications
Highly desirable:
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
Additional certifications welcomed:
- AWS Security Specialty
- Azure Certifications
- Microsoft 365 Certifications
- Security+
- CCNA
- Other infrastructure, networking or cyber security qualifications
What's in It for You?
- Salary of £47,00 - £51,000
- Onsite requirements would realistically 1 day per week in Cardiff (with additional ad-hoc requirements when needed)
- An extemtly generous annual leave entitlement
- Excellent pension scheme - up to 30%
- Ongoing professional development and training opportunities
- Opportunity to play a key role in a major cloud transformation programme
- Collaborative and supportive working environment
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If you're a skilled AWS-focused Supoort/Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer looking to combine cloud, security, automation and subject matter expertise in a highly visible role, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note, we cannot offer sponsorship
Candidates must be within a reasonable commutable distance of Cardiff.