- Company Name
- Avensys Consulting UK
- Job Title
- AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
**Role Summary:**
Design, build, and operate scalable, highly‑available AWS multi‑region infrastructures. Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Security, and application teams to deliver secure, cost‑effective, and resilient cloud platforms.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver production‑grade multi‑region AWS solutions on schedule.
- Maintain operational excellence, security compliance, and cost optimization.
- Troubleshoot complex networking and latency issues across distributed environments.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Design and manage AWS multi‑region architectures for high availability, DR, and low‑latency global access.
- Build and maintain VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT/IGW, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, and PrivateLink.
- Architect hybrid and multi‑account environments using AWS Organizations and landing zones.
- Implement network security controls with Security Groups, NACLs, WAF, Shield, and firewall appliances.
- Automate provisioning with IaC tools (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation, CDK).
- Configure cross‑region traffic routing via Route 53, ALB/NLB, Global Accelerator, and DNS failover.
- Operate highly available services (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB Global, S3 replication).
- Implement observability with CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, X‑Ray, and third‑party tools.
- Ensure security, compliance, and cost‑optimization best practices across regions.
- Troubleshoot networking, latency, and connectivity issues.
- Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines, platform self‑service, and reliability standards.
**Required Skills:**
- Hands‑on expertise with core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ELB, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS).
- Proven experience designing and operating multi‑region AWS deployments.
- Deep knowledge of cloud networking: CIDR planning, routing, DNS, VPN, Direct Connect, load balancing, TLS, segmentation.
- IaC proficiency (Terraform preferred).
- Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Python).
- Security best practices in AWS (IAM, least privilege, encryption, logging).
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- AWS certifications: Solutions Architect – Professional and/or Advanced Networking Specialty (or equivalent).