AWS Infrastructure Engineer

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Hybrid - working from home with visits to our Manchester office 2/3 times per month

£50,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, with over 15,000 staff and a turnover in excess of £5.6 billion per year combining the leading digital brands across the segments of consumer to business, business to business and business to consumer.

We're looking for people who are agile, full of ideas and want to challenge the norm. As a AWS Infrastructure Engineer you will be working within in a small team of cloud infrastructure engineers making use of infrastructure as code to build internal platforms and end user computing services.

Key Responsibilities

• Help to secure and monitor our AWS and SaaS environments
• Ensure our staff have access to the best SaaS tools available when working at home or in the office
• Build internal platforms and capabilities using infrastructure as code
• Developing automated pipelines to deploy and configure AWS and other cloud environments
• Developing a serverless platform in AWS with tools and guardrails to deliver a frictionless developer experience
• Implementing best in breed build, test, deployment and monitoring processes
• Continually identifying areas for improvement through automation, documentation, process or working methods
• Pushing the boundaries, questioning the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building is the very best it can be

Key Skills

• Experience in setting up AWS environments as a platform for development teams to build on
• Experience of working with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, CDK or Terraform
• Experience in software development tools and techniques such as OO programming, branching strategies, GitHub
• Passionate about DevOps tools and the value they can add to traditional IT
• Have a good understanding of automation techniques and best practices
• Experience with any of the following a bonus:
  • Sftware engineering using TypeScript or JavaScript
  • An AWS assciate or professional level certification
  • Wrking in a range of IT roles such as networking, firewall configuration or directory management
  • Setting up Datadg or GitHub environments
• Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation
• You want to grow within your career and are looking for a place that lets you have immediate, meaningful impact
• Pragmatic and deliver thoughtful, awesome solutions to solve business problems
• Passionate about engineering, sociable, with a great appetite for learning and self-improvement

Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability.