AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Role type: Contract
Location: London/remote
Preferred start date: ASAP
LIFE AT SATALIA
As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in the industry. Satalia, a WPP company is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight-knit team of high performing colleagues.
Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, Satalia’s ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today, this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At Satalia, your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.
THE ROLE
The Cloud Platform Engineers deliver infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team. We have a developer mindset and deliver our infrastructure through code, holding ourselves to the same quality and code standards as the rest of the team.
We need you to use your hands-on experience to drive the design, development and deployment of Satalia’s Logistics and Delivery products.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Work with our solution architects to identify the best technologies and process for our clients
Act as a technical authority to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation
Ensure security considerations are implemented, tested and maintained.
Build in Observability
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
building infrastructure and deploying code in one of the main Clouds
(preferably AWS, Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6)
Implementing and maintaining monitoring, logging and tracing tools (Grafana or similar)
Communicating and explaining technical concepts at appropriate levels for your team and to clients
Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of:
Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD
Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design
Observability
Developer Experience
DevOps and SRE
InfoSec and SIEM
If you know this, even better:
We’re interested in talking to people who have worked with different technologies. We’re looking for candidates who can demonstrate skills from this list, and who have curiosity and want to learn more:
Practical experience with AWS BitBucket Pipelines, GitHUb Actions Workflows or Azure Devops Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts
Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations
Experience deploying and operating observability stacks in production environments, including integration with Kubernetes workloads and cloud-native services.
Hands-on with Terraform – familiarity with Terragrunt, Terratest
Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
Management of Automation Tooling – Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI
Experience with automated testing tools - Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse
Strong scripting skills - Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl
Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.
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Good luck!
Hands-on experience building infrastructure and deploying code in a major cloud (preferably AWS), with Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6; implementing monitoring, logging, and tracing tools like Grafana; strong communication and understanding of CI/CD, cloud-native design, observability, DevOps, SRE, InfoSec, and SIEM.
Key Responsibilities
- designing infrastructure
- deploying code
- implementing observability
Skills & Tools
AWS, Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Terragrunt, Terratest, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse, Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl
Job Details
- Category: Software Development
- Seniority: Mid Level
- Commitment: Contract
- Workplace: Remote — London, England, United Kingdom
- Languages: English
About Satalia
A community of individuals devoted to solving complex industry problems through data science, optimisation, and artificial intelligence. — Industry: Information Technology