AWS Platform Engineer
Salary: 240,000 PLN per annum, plus company benefits
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Shifts: 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 9am until 6pm with 1 hours unpaid break
Work model: Hybrid
Williams Lea seeks an AWS Platform Engineer to join our team!
Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services, with long-term trusted relationships with blue-chip clients across investment banks, law firms and professional services firms. Williams Lea employees, nearly 7000 people worldwide, who provide efficient business services at client sites in often complex and highly regulated environments, from centralised Williams Lea onshore facilities, and through best cost company offshore locations.
Purpose of role
We are seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on a code-first approach to defining cloud infrastructure and drive automation across our AWS-based applications and services. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions on Amazon Web Services while enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
Key responsibilities
AWS Infrastructure Management
Deploy and manage AWS infrastructure using code first tooling such as Terraform, AWS CDK and Cloud Formation.
Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, and CloudFront
Optimize AWS resource utilization and costs through rightsizing, reserved instances, and automated scaling
Manage multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations, Identity Centre and Control Tower
Implement disaster recovery and backup strategies using AWS services
CI/CD Pipeline Development
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS CodePipeline.
Implement automated testing and security scanning within deployment pipelines
Manage deployment strategies including blue-green deployments using AWS services
Automate application deployments to ECS, EKS, Lambda, and EC2 environments
Container and Serverless Management
Implement serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions
Deploy and manage containerized applications using Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
Manage container registries using Amazon ECR
Optimize container and serverless application performance and costs
Implement service mesh architectures using AWS App Mesh when applicable
Monitoring and Observability
Implement comprehensive monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and AWS Systems Manager
Set up alerting and dashboards for proactive incident management
Configure log aggregation and analysis using CloudWatch Logs and AWS OpenSearch
Implement distributed tracing for microservices architectures
Create and maintain operational runbooks and documentation
Security and Compliance
Implement AWS security best practices using IAM, Security Groups, NACLs, and AWS Config
Manage secrets and credentials using AWS Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store
Implement compliance frameworks and automated security scanning
Configure AWS GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, and AWS Security Hub for threat detection
Manage SSL/TLS certificates using AWS Certificate Manager
Automation and Scripting
Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, and AWS CLI/SDK
Create AWS Lambda functions for operational automation
Implement event-driven automation using CloudWatch Events and EventBridge
Automate backup, patching, and maintenance tasks using Hashicorp Packer and AWS Systems Manager
Build custom tools and utilities to improve operational efficiency
Personal attributes
AWS
Strong experience with core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation
Experience with container services (ECS, EKS) and serverless technologies (Lambda, API Gateway)
Proficiency with AWS networking concepts and security best practices
Experience with AWS monitoring…