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About the Role
As a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer, you will take ownership of improving and scaling a cloud-agnostic AWS platform while contributing to the development of backend services and new product functionality.
Your primary focus will be strengthening infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, software supply-chain security, monitoring and alerting. You will also develop backend capabilities supporting access control, metrics ingestion and multi-tenancy.
Working closely with a small engineering team, you will contribute to platform maturity, product development and long-term technical improvements. This role requires an independent engineer who can take ownership, challenge technical decisions constructively and deliver reliable solutions. Frontend development experience would be beneficial but is not essential.
- Develop, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Strengthen and improve existing IaC configurations, infrastructure reliability and platform maturity.
- Own, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines, primarily using GitHub Actions, with Jenkins integrations where applicable.
- Implement and improve software supply-chain security processes, including Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), container image signing and verification.
- Improve AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across the platform.
- Manage Docker-based container deployments and orchestration using ECS and/or Kubernetes.
- Support ECS Anywhere deployments running across self-managed EC2 instances.
- Work with AWS services, including EC2, ECS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and Lambda.
- Develop and enhance backend microservices, primarily written in Java.
- Implement new backend features and functionality supporting role-based access control (RBAC).
- Develop backend capabilities for metrics ingestion and processing.
- Implement backend functionality supporting multi-tenancy.
- Manage application deployments, troubleshoot infrastructure issues and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures independently.
- Support cloud and on-premises deployment environments, including opportunities to improve consistency between them.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, performance, security and delivery quality.
- Contribute to cloud cost optimisation while maintaining a cloud-agnostic approach and avoiding unnecessary vendor lock-in.
- Identify technical gaps, propose improvements and contribute proactively to product and platform development.
- Collaborate with other engineers, share technical knowledge and challenge technical decisions constructively.
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, reviewing and taking ownership of generated code and integrations.
