AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Team: Infrastructure - G&A

Location: Leeds, Hybrid

Commitment: Regular - Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

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