Due to growth within the team, an opportunity has arisen for an AWS Engineer to join the Infrastructure team at AJ Bell. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to deliver continuous improvement in the Infrastructure function.

What does the job involve? 

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments
• Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform
• Support Technology Services projects & sprints
• Deliver to the Maintenance plan
• 3rd line Incident and Service request resolution
• Problem management and root cause analysis
• Provide internal guidance and support to colleagues regarding AWS best practice

About you:

We are looking for applicants with extensive hands-on expertise in AWS preferably within the financial service sector. You will have AWS Solution Architect Associate certification or be at an equivalent level or above.

Ideally you will be experienced in two or more of the following:

• Programming experience in typescript (C#, Java)
• Experience in supporting, troubleshooting, and delivering reliable solutions
• Experience with building and hosting website (Node, .NET, PHP)
• Knowledge of using Nginx, HAProxy to host websites, APIs and using these as reverse proxies.
• Experience with API Gateway, Cloudfront, ECS, EKS, App mesh
• Automation tools focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline
• Understanding of IAM policies and statements.

Desirable:

• Experience with CDK
• Containerisation using Docker and AWS ECS or similar
• Linux and Windows with emphasis on scripting and automation 
• AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions 
• Building custom dashboards and tools to support the platform
• Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs
• MySQL/Aurora, MongoDB, Redis and other database/NoSQL technologies
• AWS cost management

Behaviours and competencies:

• Credible and professional
• Able to challenge appropriately and present solutions
• Self-starting and able to work on own initiative
• High attention to detail
• Driving delivery and continuous improvement

About Us

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK, with over 398,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £75.6 billion. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with an office in central London, we now have over 1000 employees and have been named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for three consecutive years.

Our EQ4 office design is centred on delivering agile and collaborative working spaces that enable us to deliver a first class service to our customers.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of team work, we have a great sense of pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees.

In return you can expect:

• Competitive salary
• 24 days holiday increasing up to 30 days with service, plus bank holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Hybrid working policy
• Contributory pension scheme
• Paid study support for qualifications
• Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme
• Bike loan
• Season ticket loan 
• Discounted PMI and Dental insurance
• Free gym and social events
• Holiday buy/sell scheme
• Plus much more! 

This role is available under our hybrid working scheme. Ideally we're looking for people who are within commuting distance of one of our offices however for certain roles we can consider UK-based candidates who are further away - ask the recruitment team for more information. Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this time.