AWS Operations and Support Engineer
Massive career growth and project exposure await you!
At Cloud Bridge, we transform how businesses use AWS cloud services. We specialise in Consultancy, Managed Services, Cloud Governance, FinOps, and AI/ML to unlock AWS's full potential.
Recognised as AWS's Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I, we’re expanding globally with new offices in Australia, South Africa, Singapore and Dubai, a strong presence in the Philippines, and our HQ in the UK.
We’ve managed hundreds of cloud migrations, architectural projects, cost optimisations, and support services for a diverse range of customers, from start-ups to public sector organisations.
As an AWS Advanced Partner, we enhance IT experiences for clients across various sectors. If you're ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS, we want to hear from you.
We are looking for a person who can lead by example, is excellent at engaging with customers in regard to helping them solve their issues and working as a part of our team of engineers, spreading their knowledge and contributing to improve the efficiency of the company.
This is a varied, customer-facing operational role — perfect for someone with hands-on AWS experience, a proactive mindset, and a passion for operational excellence.
Role Key Objectives
- Own and manage customer support tickets via Zendesk — ensuring clear, timely communication and resolution.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a variety of Managed Service customers.
- Investigate and resolve incidents across AWS platforms — going beyond symptoms to identify root cause.
- Proactively monitor customer environments, identify anomalies, and take pre-emptive action to avoid issues.
- Manage routine operational tasks — patching schedules, backup jobs, and responding to security alerts.
- Conduct operational checks and audits to maintain cloud hygiene.
- Support customer onboarding and offboarding processes — ensuring operational readiness and smooth handovers.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) where possible — contributing to reusable CloudFormation or Terraform templates.
- Identify and remediate security risks (e.g. misconfigurations, open ports, IAM policies) aligned to best practice frameworks (CIS benchmarks).
- Participate in customer change management processes — supporting releases, deployments, and providing clear documentation.
- Maintain and improve internal tooling for monitoring, alerting, automation, and ticket management.
- Contribute to operational documentation, SOPs, and runbooks.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual tasks or streamline processes.
- Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and Engineering teams to resolve complex technical challenges.
Technical Skills
- Solid hands-on AWS operational experience — especially EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch.
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across infrastructure, networking, and security.
- Familiarity with ITSM or ticketing systems (e.g. Zendesk, Jira Service Desk).
- Basic scripting ability to automate tasks (Bash, Python, or PowerShell).
- Good understanding of AWS security best practices.
Behavioural Attributes
- Calm, methodical, and unflappable — especially when dealing with incidents or escalations.
- Clear and confident communicator — able to explain technical issues simply.
- Customer-first mindset — focused on outcomes, not just process.
- Accountable and dependable — sees tasks through to completion.
- Collaborative — works well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Curious, proactive, and continuously looking for improvements.
What’s In It For You?
- Exposure to a wide range of AWS environments, customers, and challenges.
- Opportunities for development, AWS certifications, and career growth.
- Supportive, friendly, and genuinely collaborative team culture.
- A business that values doing things properly, not just doing them fast.
- The chance to make a real impact with customers every day.
Benefits Overview
- Pro-rated Paid Time-off
- Birthday Leave
- Flexible Working
- Early Friday Finish (Monthly)
- Company Laptop and Peripherals
- Company Sabbatical Schem
- Company Events
- Wellbeing support
- Mental Health Champions
- Calm app subscription
Email us at: recruitment@cloud-bridge.co.uk
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Join us and be a part of our growing team!
- Department
- Operations
- Role
- AWS Operations & Support Engineer
- Locations
- Marlow HQ Office, Remote - Philippines, Edinburgh Office, Remote - UK, Manchester Office, London Office, Philippines - Manila
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Cloud Bridge
Cloud Bridge are a fast-paced company specialising in the optimisation and delivery of professional services and managed services around all aspects of Public Cloud solutions with a specific focus on AWS.
We want to change the way people look at and use Public Cloud services as we believe any organisation from small start-ups to large multinationals can unleash the power of these services to improve their business efficiency.
AWS Operations and Support Engineer
Massive career growth and project exposure await you!
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