Sonata Software—Senior Digital Engineer

Job description

Description: Job Title: Cloud Engineer Key responsibilities: • Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS. • Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and industry best practices. • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes. • Drive DevOps culture and automation across development and operations teams. • Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent releases. • Collaborate with Software Engineers, Technical Leads and Architects to define cloud-native solutions and deployment strategies. • Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting and logging solutions across all environments. • Ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability and operational excellence. • Support incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities. • Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM, network security, secrets management and compliance controls. • Optimise cloud resource utilisation and contribute to FinOps initiatives to improve cost efficiency. • Define and document cloud architecture, technical designs, operational procedures and runbooks. • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure environments are aligned with delivery needs. • Contribute to platform standardisation, reusable tooling and engineering governance initiatives. • Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing, workshops and technical mentoring. • Delivery. Build and maintain reliable cloud platforms according to engineering standards. • Code Quality. Follow and improve Infrastructure as Code and automation standards. • Analyse & Estimate. Assess infrastructure requirements, technical risks and implementation effort. • Software & Infrastructure Design. Create and review cloud architecture designs and infrastructure solutions. Requirements · Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch and Systems Manager (SSM). · Strong experience designing, implementing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS. · Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, reusable modules and infrastructure automation. · Strong experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes. · Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar platforms. · Strong experience with source control management and Git-based development workflows. · Strong experience with observability platforms including CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and ELK. · Strong experience with monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, distributed tracing and application performance monitoring. · Strong experience implementing operational excellence practices including SLI, SLO and SLA management. · Strong experience troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving preventative measures. · Good experience with Linux administration, networking and system troubleshooting. · Good experience with networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, VPN, CDN, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies and TLS/SSL certificates. · Good experience with AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, NAT Gateways and PrivateLink. · Good experience developing automation solutions using Python, Bash or similar technologies. · Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices including IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management and vulnerability remediation. · Strong experience with AWS Security Hub, compliance frameworks and security remediation activities. · Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and integrating automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines. · Experience evaluating and integrating cloud security tooling for vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and threat modelling. · Experience supporting microservices and distributed architectures in production environments. · Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. · Strong experience with cloud cost optimisation, FinOps practices and cloud consumption governance. · Experience using Cloudability or similar cloud financial management platforms to drive cloud visibility, optimisation and reporting. · Experience defining and implementing cloud tagging strategies, governance standards and operational compliance controls. · Experience designing and implementing automated remediation workflows. · Experience creating operational dashboards, alerting frameworks, reliability metrics and engineering KPIs. · Experience driving cloud migration initiatives, account onboarding and AWS platform transformations. · Experience building reusable platform components, self-service capabilities and developer enablement tooling. · Experience creating technical solution designs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks and engineering documentation. · Strong understanding of cloud platform services as both a producer and consumer. · Strong understanding of release management, deployment strategies and environment management. · Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies and engineering tooling including Jira, Confluence and GitHub. · DevOps as a mindset. · Customer-centric, passionate about delivering reliable digital platforms and services. · Demonstrating a true engineering craftsmanship mindset. · Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams. · Strong problem-solving skills coupled with excellent communication skills. · Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner. · Comfortable with ambiguity and highly autonomous. Benefits: · Flexible work hours · Remote work options · Professional development oppertunities · Collaborative and supportive work environment