Junior Platform Engineer, AWS

Overview

We are seeking a skilled engineer to support and develop our cloud adoption. The ideal candidate has strong development and operational skills and will collaborate with teams across research and development to provide guidance on infrastructure usage. This role sits within the Infrastructure team to drive cloud adoption.

Your Responsibilities

• Facilitate the wider adoption of AWS technologies and modern infrastructure patterns within the organization.
• Support and develop Aspect’s usage of infrastructure-as-code utilities, with a focus on enabling teams to manage their own application stacks.
• Enhance our CI/CD capabilities (continuous integration, testing, deployments).
• Collaborate with other teams to enable and support their usage of AWS technologies, with emphasis on Research and Development areas.
• Help drive migration away from legacy infrastructure.

Technologies

• AWS
  • Compute (EC2, ECS, EKS)
  • Storage (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx)
  • Security (IAM & SAML, Config, CloudTrail)
  • Automation (EventBridge, Lambda)
  • Logging & Monitoring (OpenSearch, CloudWatch, AMP, AMG)
  • Managed Services (MWAA, MSK, Kinesis)
• Terraform & Terraform Cloud
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python & PowerShell)
• Additional HashiCorp tools (Vault & Packer)
• CI/CD solutions (Jenkins, TeamCity, Argo)

Your Experience

• 1–3 years in a similar role (previous finance experience is not necessary).
• Solid knowledge of AWS technologies, particularly container, serverless, automation, and security.
• Hands-on experience designing and building testing and deployment pipelines.
• Good working knowledge of Linux and Docker.
• Strong scripting abilities.