
AWS Engineer
Severn Trent
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Coventry • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £57,000 - £60,000 per year
About the role
- Design, deploy, and manage AWS environments
- Support transition to a multi-cloud architecture alongside Azure-skilled team
- Build scalable, secure AWS solutions and manage account structures, security baselines, and networking
- Automate resource provisioning using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- Design hybrid connectivity between AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments
- Apply best practices for IAM, encryption, and unified monitoring across AWS and Azure
- Use tools like CloudWatch, AWS Config, and CloudTrail to optimize performance and costs
- Resolve cloud infrastructure issues and participate in on-call rotations
- Collaborate with networking, security, and application teams for seamless deployments
Requirements
- Hands-on AWS experience in design, deployment, and management
- Familiarity with multi-cloud strategies (Azure exposure is a plus)
- Strong understanding of security, automation, and cloud best practices
- AWS Core Services: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudWatch
- Networking: VPC design, VPN, Direct Connect, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls
- Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines
- Security: AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, IAM policies, encryption, audits, regulatory compliance
- Multi-Cloud Exposure: Azure fundamentals (Resource Groups, Entra ID, VNets, ExpressRoute, VPN, Monitor etc)
- Scripting: Terraform, Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
Benefits
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225, which is subject to eligibility)
- Family-friendly policies (including a year off fully paid maternity and adoption leave)
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent plc shares at a discounted rate
- Dedicated training and development with our Academy
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Two paid volunteering days per year
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Hard skills
AWSTerraformCloudFormationPythonPowerShellBashEC2S3VPCIAM
Soft skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunication