AWS Cloud Engineer | S3 | Data & AI Domain | Milton Keynes
Banco Santander, S.A.3 days ago
Milton Keynes, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Engineer, operate, and continuously improve Santander’s AWS data lake platform and shared services.
- Build, configure, and support AWS capabilities including S3, IAM, VPC, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lambda, and Step Functions.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules and reusable platform components.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release controls, and deployment automation for infrastructure and platform changes.
- Apply cloud security controls covering least-privilege access, encryption, network isolation, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
- Support Spark, batch, streaming, and near-real-time workloads from a platform and infrastructure perspective.
- Monitor platform health, performance, resilience, capacity, and cost using observability and operational tooling.
- Participate in incident response, problem investigation, root cause analysis, maintenance, and operational runbook development.
- Identify and remediate technology obsolescence, platform risks, resilience gaps, and operational control weaknesses.
- Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, security, architecture, risk, and enterprise architecture teams.
- Follow regulatory requirements, Santander’s Operational Risk Framework, internal technology standards, and approved architectures.
Requirements
- Degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Proven experience engineering, operating, and evolving secure, resilient, and scalable AWS platforms for enterprise data and analytics workloads.
- Experience delivering AWS infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code and automation practices.
- Experience applying DevOps and CI/CD practices across enterprise cloud environments.
- Experience supporting enterprise data lake and analytics platforms, including batch, streaming, and near-real-time workloads.
- Experience with AWS cloud security, observability, operational resilience, capacity management, and cost optimisation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including S3, IAM, VPC, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, and SageMaker.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline for automated delivery.
- Experience with data ingestion, processing, transformation, delivery, SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
- Hands-on experience with Spark-based platforms such as EMR, Glue, or Databricks, including troubleshooting, scaling, and performance optimisation.
- Programming expertise in Python, Java, Scala, SQL, Spark, Unix shell scripting, and AWS CLI.
- Understanding of streaming technologies such as Kafka or comparable tools is preferred.
- Practical knowledge of agentic AI tooling and integration patterns, including Devin, Atlassian Rovo, and Model Context Protocol, is preferred.
- Exposure to data governance tooling, data catalogues, or access control frameworks is preferred.
- Experience working in Agile or product-aligned teams and working knowledge of JIRA are preferred.
- English is required and Spanish is preferred.
- Strong collaboration, analytical, troubleshooting, communication, ownership, and accountability skills.
Benefits
- 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 31 days after five years of service, with the option to purchase additional contractual days.
- Company-funded individual private medical insurance.
- Company-funded death-in-service and income protection insurance, with discounted additional life assurance and critical illness cover available.
- Access to Santander share plans and employee product and service discounts.
- Wellbeing support including healthcare, mental health resources, fitness access, online classes, and wellbeing partner services.
- Enhanced family leave, childcare options, and support for different life stages.
- Volunteering opportunities and global career development opportunities.
- Site-based hybrid working pattern with attendance at the office at least 12 days per month, pro-rated for part-time roles.
- The role is based in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, and candidates must have the right to work in the UK when employment begins.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Banco Santander, S.A.
Banco Santander, S.A. is a global bank providing retail and commercial banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, insurance, and payments for individuals, SMEs, corporates, and public institutions. Founded in 1857 and headquartered in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), it operates across Europe and the Americas through local subsidiaries and digital brands like Openbank, and is publicly traded, including on the New York Stock Exchange.