Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Due to growth within the team, an opportunity has arisen for an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to deliver continuous improvement in the Infrastructure function.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments.
  
  
• Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform.
  
  
• Support technology projects & sprints and Deliver to the maintenance plan.
  
  
• 3rd line incident and service request resolution.
  
  
• Problem management and root cause analysis and Provide internal guidance and support to colleagues regarding AWS best practice.
  
  What we’re looking for from you:
  
  
• Extensive hands-on expertise in AWS, ideally gained within the financial services sector.
  
  
• A certified AWS Solution Architect Associate (or equivalent/higher level comparable certification)
  
  
• Ability to be credible and professional.
  
  
• Able to challenge appropriately and present effective solutions and have a high focus on delivery and continuous improvement.
  
  Desirable skills and experience you can also bring:
  
  
• Containerisation (Docker and AWS ECS or similar)
  
  
• Linux and Windows, with emphasis on scripting and automation.
  
  
• Automation tools, focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline.
  
  
• AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions.
  
  
• Building custom dashboards and tools to support the platform.
  
  
• Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs.
  
  
• MySQL / Aurora, MongoDB, Redis and other database / NoSQL technologies.
  
  About us:
  
  AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 593,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £90.4 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
  
  Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
  
  Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work®.
  
  At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
  
  Our perks and benefits:
  
  
• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
  
  
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
  
  
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7%
  
  
• Discretionary bonus scheme and Annual free share awards scheme
  
  
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
  
  
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
  
  
• Free gym membership
  
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
• Bike loan scheme and Loans for travel season tickets
  
  
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
  
  
• Death in service scheme
  
  
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
  
  
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
  
  Hybrid working:
  
  At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
  
  AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
  
  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
  
  If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you