Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Reporting to the AWS Infrastructure Team Lead, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to deliver continuous improvement in the Infrastructure function, building close ties with the business and broader technology function. This is a growing function where you can help on our journey as we adopt a cloud first, fully automated architectural approach where the teams are enabled from ideation to delivery. The solutions and processes implemented are key to ensure we remain operationally efficient, regulatorily compliant and provide a best-in-class service for our customers and people.

What does the job involve?

• 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
• Working alongside Technical Leads, Engineers and testers from Project inception to create and implement project deliveries.
• Being actively involved in exciting new research projects and proof of concepts
• Deliver to the Maintenance plan
• 3rd line Incident and Service request resolution
• Problem management and root cause analysis
• Provide internal guidance and support to colleagues regarding AWS best practice
• Ensure that all duties are carried out with the aim of protecting customers and improving customer experience.
• Supporting and enabling the business to achieve its regulatory requirements, including consumer duty.

What we're looking for:

• Full understanding of the development lifecycle & methodologies
• Maintain and enhance the existing automation frameworks
• Expertise in CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins, Git, AWS CodePipeline – build, test, and deploy in an automated pipeline or workflow.
• Experience of delivering & maintaining an application stack on AWS
• Experience of delivering with Microsoft Windows Server and Linux server configuration and management 
• Knowledge of Typescript being used for CDK frameworks
• Knowledge of container creation and management
• Knowledge of source control, i.e. Bitbucket, GitHub
• Experience with micro services architecture
• Credible and professional
• Able to challenge appropriately and present solutions
• Self-starting and able to work on own initiative
• High attention to detail
• Driving delivery and continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively across people of all levels

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 484,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £76.2 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 1300 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.

What we offer:

• Starting salary £75,000 - £85,000 (DOE)
• Generous holiday allowance increasing up to 31 days with service, plus bank holidays
• Holiday buy/sell scheme
• Hybrid working policy
• Casual dress code
• Discretionary bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Free annual share scheme
• Paid study support for qualifications
• Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme from day one
• Bike loan
• Season ticket loan portal
• Discounted PMI and Dental
• Free gym
• Paid volunteering opportunities, free social events and more

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.