AWS Engineer
Kerv
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Help run and improve AWS environments across production and development, with a strong focus on security, stability, compliance and cost control.
- Work with existing security tooling, including OX Security and Wiz, to identify and prioritise vulnerabilities, drive remediation activity, and maintain a forward plan to reduce risk and improve security posture.
- Work within change control process, making sure infrastructure changes are properly assessed, documented, scheduled and communicated.
- Look for opportunities to automate repeatable operational tasks, improve consistency, reduce manual effort and support ongoing cost optimisation across cloud estate.
- As part of a small team, work closely with engineering, service and product colleagues to keep platforms secure, resilient and efficient.
- Manage the day-to-day operation of AWS and Azure environments across multiple customer and internal estates.
- Plan and deliver patching, system updates and infrastructure changes.
- Use OX Security, Wiz and other tools to identify, triage and track vulnerabilities through to resolution.
- Maintain a prioritised programme of work covering remediation, technical debt and broader security improvements.
- Contribute technical input into change control, including impact assessments, implementation plans, rollback plans and scheduling.
- Maintain and improve CIS-aligned configurations and controls where required.
- Drive cost optimisation initiatives across AWS, including usage reviews, rightsizing and reducing waste.
- Improve operational efficiency through automation, scripting and better tooling.
- Support incident resolution, root cause analysis, documentation and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure in live production environments, with strong experience in AWS and working knowledge of the other.
- Experience of day-to-day infrastructure operations, including patching, vulnerability remediation and implementing production changes.
- Experience working within a controlled change process in a production environment.
- A solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including identity and access management, networking, platform hardening and general security best practice.
- Experience using automation or scripting to reduce manual effort and improve operational consistency.
- Strong organisational, troubleshooting and communication skills, with the ability to prioritise work and see actions through to completion.
- Awareness of security and compliance requirements such as Cyber Essentials, CIS or similar good practice.
- Ideally you will also have: Experience across both AWS and Azure.
- Experience with OX Security, Wiz, or similar cloud security and posture management tooling.
- Experience supporting multi-customer or multi-tenant environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code or configuration and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, PowerShell, Bash or Python.
- Experience supporting public-sector or other regulated environments.
- Experience identifying and delivering cloud cost optimisation initiatives.
- Experience supporting operational escalations or working closely with a Service Desk.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS, Azure, security or ITIL qualifications.
Benefits
- Travel to client sites although very unlikely may occur and will be fully reimbursed by Kerv Group.
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSAzurevulnerability remediationpatchingInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsibleJenkinsPowerShellPython
Soft Skills
organisational skillstroubleshooting skillscommunication skillsprioritisationautomationproblem-solvingcollaborationdocumentationcontinuous improvementchange management
Certifications
AWS certificationAzure certificationsecurity certificationITIL certification