What You'll Be Doing:

• Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure strategy across development, staging and production.
• Design for high availability, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Own production Aurora, Redshift and Redis environments, including availability, failover, backups, upgrades and performance optimisation.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, including safe deployment and rollback strategies.
• Take ownership of on-call and incident response, leading investigations and producing meaningful postmortems.
• Design, document and regularly test backup and disaster recovery processes.
• Build effective observability across metrics, logging, alerting and dashboards.
• Implement strong cloud security practices including IAM, encryption, patching, vulnerability management and secrets management.
• Optimise AWS expenditure through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and ongoing cost analysis.
• Lead architecture reviews and promote strong DevOps and platform engineering practices.
• Identify future scale and performance challenges before they become problems.
• Mentor engineers and improve infrastructure knowledge and practices across engineering teams.
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