AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Company: starcompliance
Location: Leeds, Hybrid
Type: full_time
Posted: Aug 26, 2026
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The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is an experienced individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure supporting a production-grade, multi-account B2B SaaS platform in the financial services industry.

This role is critical to maintaining platform resilience, security, automation maturity, and operational excellence across production and non-production environments. The engineer operates with moderate autonomy, owning defined areas of the AWS environment while contributing to infrastructure standards, reliability engineering, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments

    • Support application deployments and underlying platform services required for reliable operation

    • Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

    • Configure and maintain AWS services including compute, storage, networking, and managed services

    • Monitor infrastructure health, availability, and performance; respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis

    • Partner with application engineering and security teams to support system reliability and scalability

    • Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions

    • Support automation related to infrastructure provisioning and application deployments

    • Manage IAM roles, permissions, and access controls in alignment with security policies

    • Contribute to cloud cost monitoring and optimization efforts

    • Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures

    • Participate in on-call or incident response rotations as required

    Core AWS & Cloud Technologies

    Compute & Containers

    • Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)

    • Amazon EC2

    • Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

    • AWS Lambda (event-driven workloads)

    Networking & Edge

    • Amazon VPC (multi-AZ design, subnet segmentation)

    • Internet Gateway (IGW)

    • VPC Peering

    • Elastic Load Balancing (ALB)

    • AWS WAF

    • Amazon Route 53

    • AWS Data Transfer optimization

    Databases & Caching

    • Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) and PSQL

    • Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB compatibility)

    • Amazon ElastiCache (Redis)

    Messaging & Streaming

    • Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka)

    Security & Compliance

    • AWS IAM

    • AWS KMS

    • AWS Secrets Manager

    • AWS Config

    • AWS CloudTrail

    • Amazon GuardDuty

    • Amazon Inspector

    • AWS WAF

    • Auth0

    Monitoring & Observability

    • Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, events)

    CI/CD & DevOps

    • CircleCI

    • BitBucket

    • Github

    • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

    Storage & Data Lifecycle

    • Amazon S3

    • Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

    Managed Platform Services

    • AWS Transfer Family

    • Amazon WorkSpaces (administrative environments)

    Skills and Experience

    • Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS environments in a multi-account architecture.

    • Deep experience with containerized platforms (ECS) and distributed system design.

    • Proven experience managing relational and document databases in high-availability configurations.

    • Strong understanding of secure VPC architecture, ingress/egress control, and network isolation strategies.

    • Experience operating Kafka-based streaming architectures (MSK).

    • Expertise implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform.

    • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.

    • Strong knowledge of IAM design, encryption practices, and secrets management.

    • Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation for production systems.

    • Ability to troubleshoot performance, networking, scaling, and availability issues across distributed systems.

    • Experience supporting regulated or compliance-sensitive environments (e.g., financial services).

    • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and code development while maintaining security and compliance standards.

    • Strong judgment in the responsible use of AI tools to enhance productivity, improve code quality, and streamline operational workflows within regulated environments.

    • Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills.

    Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

    • 4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems engineering roles.

    • AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred.

    Integrity and Ethics

    • All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner

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