Cloud Engineer – AWS | Python

Overview

In this role you will own the full lifecycle of data transformation applications, from writing clean Python to designing scalable AWS infrastructure. You will work within a cloud engineering team to deliver real-time, high-throughput data solutions. You’ll build and operate secure cloud infrastructure and automated pipelines, enabling fast, reliable data processing. This opportunity offers end-to-end ownership and exposure to the latest AWS technologies in a collaborative Southwest UK setting.

Pay / Benefits

• extensive benefits package
• hybrid working
• Southwest UK-friendly with occasional office visits
• competitive salary £70,000

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Python applications for real-time data transformation
• Provision and scale AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Architect cost-efficient, low-latency, high-throughput solutions
• Deploy serverless and containerised workloads (Lambda, ECS, EC2, SQS, S3, RDS)
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, builds and deployments
• Set up monitoring and logging with CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray

Key requirements

• Strong background in Python development with hands-on AWS infrastructure experience
• Hands-on experience with S3, Lambda, ECS, SQS, RDS and EC2
• Proven experience deploying environments with Terraform
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration such as ECS
• Familiarity with data transformation strategies and high-volume data streams
• Solid Git and CI/CD practices (desirable)

• ownership
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• Python development
• AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, SQS, RDS, EC2)
• Terraform

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