Mandatory Experience

Application development, performance optimisation, caching strategies, and container-based deployments on AWS using ECS, Docker, GitLab CI/CD and AWS-native DevOps tooling.
Advanced AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, routing, segmentation and multi-account connectivity.
Enterprise-scale networking architectures including hub-and-spoke models using AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN for multi-account environments.
Security and perimeter protection using AWS Network Firewall, Gateway Load Balancers (GWLB), centralised ingress/egress inspection and zero-trust security patterns.
Identity and Access Management (IAM), including IAM policies, Service Control Policies (SCPs), IAM Identity Center and least-privilege access models within regulated environments.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, with experience building clean, reusable and composable infrastructure modules.
Cloud Operations, Reliability and Observability using CloudWatch, Splunk and related monitoring platforms.
Design of highly available, fault-tolerant and resilient cloud architectures across multiple AWS Availability Zones.
Experience implementing Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, failover, resilience and business continuity patterns.
Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, risk and controls within enterprise environments.
Experience supporting production systems and leading technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance optimisation activities.

Desirable Experience

Experience with AI/ML platforms on AWS, preferably Amazon Bedrock.
Knowledge of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search and enterprise AI architecture patterns.
Understanding of AI security, governance, observability and responsible AI controls.
Experience integrating AI capabilities into cloud-native applications and platforms.
Familiarity with agentic architecture patterns and API-first AI integrations.