Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description:

I am looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) to work remotely/hybrid for a company based in the Leicester area.

This is a Full-time role and Out-of-hours rota is required.

The Role

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will help design, build, and support my client's AWS-based infrastructure. You’ll focus on automation, monitoring, and security in a cloud-first environment, while occasionally supporting hybrid or on-premises systems.

You’ll work closely with other engineers and product teams to ensure platforms are reliable, scalable, and secure. This role is ideal for someone with solid AWS experience who is eager to grow their role and responsibilities, deepen their cloud and DevOps expertise, and contribute to the continuous improvement of my client's infrastructure and practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.).

• Automate deployments and infrastructure management with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation).

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.

• Monitor and troubleshoot issues across AWS and hybrid environments.

• Support security, patching, and compliance requirements.

• Help document infrastructure designs, processes, and runbooks.

• Participate in a limited on-call rota to meet client and internal SLAs.

• Participate in limited weekend activity for significant deployment events.

• Stay up to date with new AWS services and cloud engineering practices.

Skills and Experience

• Hands-on experience with AWS services (compute, networking, storage, IAM, monitoring).

• Practical knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation).

• Linux server administration experience.

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, routing).

• Experience troubleshooting technical issues in a cloud or hybrid environment.

• Interest in automation and a DevOps mindset.

Desirable

• AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Administrator) or working towards one.

• Exposure to containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS).

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins).

• Experience with monitoring and logging (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Icinga).

• Database administration (MySQL/MariaDB, RDS, MS SQL).

• Knowledge of messaging/streaming (MSK/Kafka).

• Awareness of cloud security tools and practices (CrowdStrike, WAFs, certificate management).