Job Description

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: 30 September 2022


Title: Cloud Platform Engineer AWS – Digital Technoly
Department: Technology
Reports to: Web Development Manager
Job Type: Permanent

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our Digital Technology team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.
Fidelity in Ireland
Fidelity International has operated in Ireland since 2000 and is home to the Fidelity International Irish business (FIL Fund Management, FIL Life Insurance and FIL Transaction Services). Our core business activities are focused around the provision of Fund Accounting, Investment Operations, Treasury, Foreign exchange and Client Services.
Late 2015 we announced the creation of a global shared services structure reflecting our desire to design a global organisation in line with our strategic vision to deliver better futures for our clients. This function plays an essential role in strengthening our culture of continuous improvement enabling us to create simpler, more automated, and scalable and lower-risk ways of meeting clients’ needs quickly
This exciting venture in one of Europe’s largest financial services centres creates significant opportunities for those looking to grow their careers in an international company
Purpose of your role
The purpose of the position of AWS Cloud Engineer is to support our Global WorkPlace Investing technology business to role out a new AWS serverless based application for end users to support secure transactional website for pension administration.
This application is already being delivered in iterations alongside both an existing legacy app and also a Global application. The existing ecosystem is complex with many variables and will require someone who is analytically minded and willing and capable and willing to work in a challenging Global organisational structure.
Working alongside multiple stakeholder groups you will need to utilise your experience of working in agile delivery teams to assist with the design, definition, exploration and delivery of an end to end technology solution to service a scaling global Workplace Invesments business.
The role will be working alongside an existing scrum team primarily based in Ireland but also located in UK and India. The candidate will primarily be working alongside our existing Cloud Engineer (Ireland based) supporting multiple development teams. It is important the candidate understands both DevOps toolchains and cloud architecture’s. The candidate should have prior experience working with Scrum, Kanban methodologies and be a competent user of Jira and Confluence.
You must have a passion for delivering high quality and scalable solutions with a continued focus on the customer need. You should be both willing to challenge and to be challenged on where things can be improved and are comfortable working alongside other engineers in a pair programming environment.
Your key accountabilities
This position requires a strong self-starter with solid technical engineering background.

• Support training of team members in AWS technologies and best practices
• Support development teams with AWS serverless app
• Enhance and support security related issues (DivvyCloud)
• Support AWS platform (fixing of defects, automation of existing manual processes etc.)
• Continuous improvement of pipelines and infra (Infra as Code, automation)
• Support existing CI/CD pipeline

Your skills and experience
The ideal candidate will have 2+ years’ experience working with AWS in a DevOps capacity:

• Prior skills and experience requirements
  • Neccessary:
    • Terraform
    • API Gateway
    • Lambda
    • Cloudfront
    • Core AWS Service Knowledge
      • Lambda
      • S3
  • Good to have:
    • Docker
    • Cloudwatch
    • CodePipeline
    • CodeBuild
    • ECS / Fargate
    • Security and basic Networking knowledge
    • Node.js
    • Jenkins

Feel rewarded
For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.
For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.