AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title
AWS Cloud Engineer
Location
Bristol, UK (Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office)
Salary
£50,000 to £60,000 + benefits
 
About the company
WeDo is partnering with a long established and growing software provider that has been delivering technology solutions to the insurance industry for over 40 years. The business develops platforms used by brokers, managing general agents and insurers to support underwriting, scheme management and policy distribution.
 
As the insurance market evolves, the organisation continues to expand its technology ecosystem, building modern cloud hosted services that integrate with its core platform.

The position
Our client is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to take ownership of their AWS environment and play a key role in evolving their cloud infrastructure.
 
The core infrastructure is already established with several AWS hosted services supporting additional products that integrate with the organisation’s core platform. The successful candidate will focus on improving deployments, building data driven pipelines, strengthening platform architecture and ensuring robust information security standards.
 
This role will work closely with engineering and leadership teams to ensure the AWS environment remains scalable, secure and efficient while supporting the delivery of new products and integrations.
 
Key responsibilities include:
• Managing and improving AWS infrastructure across EC2, S3, RDS, VPC and related services
• Developing automation for infrastructure provisioning and management
• Implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Monitoring and optimising performance using tools such as CloudWatch
• Ensuring compliance with security frameworks and cloud security best practices
• Improving platform reliability, deployment practices and overall architecture
• Supporting the development team with scalable and secure cloud solutions
 
Information security will be a particular focus in this role as the organisation continues to strengthen its cloud governance and security posture.
 
Requirements
• Strong experience managing and operating infrastructure within AWS
• Experience working with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC and RDS
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure automation and monitoring
• Knowledge of cloud security practices including IAM and network security
• Familiarity with frameworks such as CSA Cloud Control Matrix and OWASP best practices is beneficial
• Experience working with databases and performance optimisation
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
 
Nice to have:
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Previous experience in the insurance or fintech sector
 
Recruitment process
Stage 1: Interview with the CEO
Stage 2: Technical and team discussion with the Engineering leadership team
 
Interested?
Apply for the position or send your CV to (url removed)