Requirements: English
Company: X4 Technology
Region: Barcelona , Catalonia
Contract Opportunity: Cloud/ Platform Engineer
Location: London - 3 days onsite per week in Barcelona
Contract Duration: 6 months+ (Extension to 12-18 months likely)
Industry: Pharmaceutical via Consultancy
About the Company: Our consultancy client is hiring for a skilled and proactive Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer to design, build, and support scalable cloud infrastructure and automation pipelines on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will work closely with DevOps, Security, Data, and AI Application teams to ensure platform reliability, security, and performance. Your role will be critical in driving infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud governance initiatives across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and high availability across development, staging, and production environments.
- Automate operational tasks, environment provisioning, and deployments using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Enable and maintain Amazon SageMaker environments for scalable ML model training, hosting, and pipelines.
- Integrate AWS Bedrock to provide foundation model access for generative AI applications, ensuring security and cost control.
- Manage and publish curated infrastructure templates through AWS Service Catalogue to enable consistent and compliant provisioning.
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to implement best practices around IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, and cost optimization.
- Implement and manage observability tools like Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK for monitoring and alerting.
- Support container orchestration environments using EKS (Kubernetes), ECS, or Fargate.
- Contribute to incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement of the platforms operational excellence.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
- Strong experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in Linux system administration and networking fundamentals.
- Solid understanding of IAM policies, VPC design, security groups, and encryption.
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration using Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and version control (Git).
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to work independently or in a team.
Apply now or email me on l.brand@thex4group.com