Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Remote
London, United Kingdom
£ 100,000 / year
Freelance
31-03-2025
Job Specifications
FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an AWS Engineer in London to work for our client within the Retail sector. This role will be mostly remote and is initially a 6-month contract.
As an AWS Engineer, you will be the SME and champion of cloud technologies which are relevant in the client’s space. These are primarily AWS and Kafka, and the technologies and services surrounding them. There is a huge amount of scope here as both are distinct and huge so there’s a great chance to positively impact the space in a meaningful way.
The client encourages their developers to be T shaped, so while they may not be experts in cloud technologies, they should have a working understanding of them. The ideal candidate would have at least 8 years of experience.
Responsibilities
Helping others with day-to-day cloud work
Support developers to create and maintain CloudFormation templates, spinning up new AWS resources or adding Kafka topics to the supply chain cluster
SME in cloud related tasks with the ability to complete these tasks quickly as well as upskill developers so that they can learn to handle these tasks going forward
Owning cloud specific work and tracking the progress
Reporting back on any blockers that need to be resolved
Take on larger pieces of cloud-centric or cloud specific work such as migrating our preprod resources out of the prod account to their own dedicated preprod account
Proactively raising potential issues and lack of best practice
Act is cloud SME on incident report
Work with developers to narrow down problems as far as possible within the team and then delegate to the relevant teams
Requirements
A developing understanding of the retail business and deep knowledge of the technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that solutions can and will add to the strategy
Expertise in engineering and architectural practices and principles
Proven technical experience in solution design and implementation, security, cloud and infrastructure and any relevant hardware
Knowledge of agile engineering practices
Sound judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace for your team
Experience of owning technical services and / or products including any relevant support and technical debt management
Experience in leading, motivating and directing engineering professionals and other technology teams
Technical Requirement
Lead the design and development of large-scale services with high performance using technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Spring Boot, .NET, Node JS and React JS. Utilise serverless functions and event driven architecture
Lead the design and development of real-time streaming and batch data pipelines using technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, lambda, step functions and Snowflake.
Lead the design and development of infrastructure using technologies such as Kubernetes, Lambda, Terraform, cloud custodian and AWS Transit Gateway. Utilise serverless functions and event driven architecture
Lead the design and development of connectivity solutions to keep the organisation operating at all times using Cisco, F5 and Direct Connect
Why join us?
Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills
Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme
About FDM
We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.
Diversity and Inclusion
FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
About the Company
We’re FDM, an award-winning global business and technology consultancy. For over 30 years we’ve been powering the people behind tech and innovation. We collaborate with world-leading companies to identify the expertise they need, exactly when they need it. We have helped successfully launch nearly 25,000 careers globally to date and we are a trusted partner to over 300 companies worldwide. Diversity, equity and inclusivity is at the core of everything we do. We have 4,000+ employees worldwide, with over 90 nationalities wo... Know more
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