Cloud Engineering Lead at Vallum Associates, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

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Contract Description

AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - Contract - Outside IR35


  • Outside IR35
  • 6 month initial contract
  • Remote based with some adhoc travel from time to time
  • Very competitive rates on offer


The AWS Cloud Engineering Lead will work within our enterprise client business product team(s), in a DevOps role, which comprises of the full software delivery lifecycle from discovery through to design, build, deploy and run/optimize. As AWS Cloud Engineering Lead you will lead the engineering capability within the team, working closely with the product owner, architect(s), and scrum master in order to bring new functionality and technical improvements to market. The AWS Cloud Engineering Lead will be responsible for the quality of the output of the engineering function; ensuring quality control and assurance.


The AWS Cloud Engineering Lead is also responsible for ensuring the engineering function is capable of providing support for those features and solutions created – ensuring a fit for purpose operational service. The role holder will be comfortable leading within a fast paced, flexible and iterative delivery environment.


AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - Principal Accountabilities:


  • Delivery of software functions, features and components, utilising agile software development life cycle methods and practices.
  • Ensure effective utilisation of engineering resources and technical capabilities across the product delivery lifecycle.
  • Be at the forefront of the engineering community’s evolution and direction, tooling and technologies
  • Design, develop, maintain and mature a highly secure multi-account enterprise AWS infrastructure in close coordination with other product teams, Enterprise Security and Enterprise IT.
  • Responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of continual integration pipelines
  • Establishing culture of and Leading code reviews, security reviews throughout the engineering delivery lifecycle
  • Create well-designed, testable code that enables automation of test and deployment activity
  • Utilise continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) techniques in developing software components
  • Integrate software components into the broad functional and technical solution landscape, using common standards and patterns


AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - Key Requirements

  • Deep knowledge in AWS cloud architecture
  • Serverless architectures
  • Loose-coupling, queuing, and event driven architectures
  • Expertise in at least one server-side language (ideally, Python, Java/Kotlin, NodeJS)
  • REST APIs, design and use of 3rd party APIs
  • Commercial experience with React and/or React Native UI framework
  • Commercial experience with one or more popular app state management libraries
  • Test Driven Development/Behaviour Driven Development
  • Experienced in source control and CI / CD tooling technologies (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform)
  • Experience of leading small to medium sized teams in a fast-paced agile environment
  • Proactive and able to demonstrate strong ownership
  • Can gravitate and contribute to where the demand is in the team outside of their specialist area
  • Ability to translate complex engineering concepts to non-technical team members and broader stakeholders
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and with willingness to test and experiment