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The Role We're looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join a team building and scaling a modern, enterprise-grade GenAI platform. This role is centred around designing, building and operating cloud-native solutions on AWS, while working closely with the application layer across both frontend and backend services. You'll collaborate with software engineers to ensure applications built with React, TypeScript and Python are secure, scalable, observable and production-ready. You'll play a key role in shaping cloud architecture, automating infrastructure, improving developer experience, and ensuring systems can reliably support AI-driven products at scale. What You'll Be Doing - Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS - Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK - Build and support scalable, secure and resilient application platforms - Work closely with engineers developing applications in React, TypeScript and Python - Support the deployment and operation of frontend and backend services - Design and manage containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes - Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery workflows - Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and observability best practices - Optimise cloud environments for performance, reliability and cost efficiency - Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis - Apply cloud security best practices and governance controls - Contribute to platform automation and developer self-service capabilities - Help define cloud architecture standards and operational best practices What We're Looking For - Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments - Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications and infrastructure - Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK) - Strong understanding of AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS and S3 - Experience supporting modern web applications built with React and TypeScript - Experience working with backend services developed in Python - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines - Strong understanding of observability, monitoring and logging practices - Experience troubleshooting issues across both cloud infrastructure and application layers - Knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices - Strong communication and collaboration skills Nice to Have - AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer or SysOps) - Software engineering experience in Python - Experience developing frontend applications using React and TypeScript - Experience with GraphQL and REST APIs - Experience running production workloads on EKS - Experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda - Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or New Relic - Exposure to distributed systems and event-driven architectures - Experience working within consulting or client-facing environments - Familiarity with GenAI, machine learning or data platforms Why Join Instil? At Instil, we believe great work starts with happy, motivated people. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your wellbeing, growth, and life outside of work, because when you thrive, so do we. - Recognition That Matters: A discretionary annual performance bonus that rewards your impact and contribution to our success. - Flexibility Built In: Flexible working arrangements and summer hours, because life isn’t 9 to 5, and balance matters. - Financial Security: A highly competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions, private healthcare, and life assurance for peace of mind. - Health & Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, mental health support, cycle-to-work scheme, and regular social events to keep our culture vibrant. - Time to Recharge: 35 days h