Senior Aws Engineer

Senior AWS Engineer
Up to £75,000 per annum + benefits
Hybrid - working from home with regular visits to our Manchester office
Full time, Monday - Friday
The Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, combining the leading digital brands across the segments of Consumer to Business (C2B), Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C). Across our digital platforms we exceed £20billion of Gross Merchandises Value (‘GMV’) on an annual basis. This includes market leading brands such as BCA UK, We Buy Any Car, cinch, Elmo, BCA and CarNext Europe and Marshall.
https://www.constellationautomotive.com/
The Constellation Technology Team provides a group-wide set of Technology Products and Services across the Constellation Automotive Group. We are a central function working across the following domains: Technology Operations, Cyber Security, Product, Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Logistics, Architecture and Portfolio; across the UK and Europe.
Our roles support both a cross section of divisions or could be dedicated to a single division. This provides a unique opportunity to experience a diversity of teams, technology, and businesses across C2B, B2B and B2C. This also provides the possibility to change roles within the Group, and experience new challenges and opportunities.
We're looking for an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to join a small well established team of cloud infrastructure engineers making use of infrastructure as code to build an internal developer platform to host AWS serverless architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Taking a technical lead in building, securing and monitoring our AWS and SaaS environments
Building an internal developer platform using AWS, GitHub and Datadog that makes it as easy as possible for developers to release components using AWS serverless architecture
Using AWS CDK to define infrastructure as code and deploy via AWS Codepipeline and GitHub Actions
Building and maintaining a small Azure estate including at times building on top of a Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) identity source to provide a secure and highly automated environment
Continually identifying areas for improvement through automation, documentation, process or working methods
AWS serverless technologies with fully cloud based architecture and utilising modern fast-flow software deployment technique.
Essential Knowledge and Experience
Experience in setting up and securing AWS environments as a platform for development teams to build on top of
Experience of working with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, CDK or Terraform
Experience in software development tools and techniques such as OO programming, branching strategies, GitOps
Ability to provide an internal consultancy service through collaboration, stakeholder management, presenting ideas and allocating work to other team members
Passionate about engineering, sociable, with a great appetite for learning and self-improvement
Beneficial Experience (Not Essential)
Software engineering using TypeScript or JavaScript
An AWS associate or professional level certification
Working in a range of IT roles such as networking, firewall configuration or directory management
Setting up Datadog or GitHub environments
Deploying and managing components in Azure PaaS
Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or disability.