
Software Engineer (AWS)
- Sheffield
- Contract
- Full-time
- Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant backend REST API services along with frontend client using Python, Golang, Docker and Cloud-Native services.
- Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase, ensuring alignment with compliance and audit standards.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelinesin collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.
- Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
- Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
- Comes from Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.
- 5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.
- Proficient in Golang and Python.
- Experience with Liquibaseor similar tools for database change management and version control.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, including cloud-native services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization. Experience with other cloud providers such as GCP is desirable.
- Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.
- Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
- A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.
- Demonstrable experience of:
- Public Cloud.
- Infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
- Linux.
- Relational and NoSQL databases.
- Integration services such as messaging and streams.
- Building RESTful API Services.
- Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
- Microservices, and distributed tracing.
- Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).
- Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
- Experience working within an Agile environment.
- Programming experience in following languages: Golang & Python.
- Good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
- Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
- Good non-functional testing experience.
- Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer / AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).