Systems Engineer

Job Title: Systems Engineer

Location: Remote + Quarterly Planning Sessions in Bristol

Remuneration: £600 per day via Umbrella Company

Contract Details: Temporary - 6 Months (Scope for Extensions)

Responsibilities

Our client is seeking a talented Systems Engineer to play a pivotal role in a transformative modernisation programme. The organisation is replacing ageing on-premises systems with a cutting-edge cloud-native architecture within a greenfield AWS environment. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to significant advancements in technology and operational excellence.

• Analysing and understanding existing legacy systems and infrastructure.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define future-state requirements and translating them into scalable cloud solutions.
• Designing and building infrastructure within a greenfield AWS environment.
• Supporting the migration and replacement of legacy applications with modern cloud-native services.
• Defining infrastructure architecture, standards, and operational approaches for new platforms.
• Building and supporting environments for data platforms, web-based applications, mapping and GIS tools, and microservices-based platforms.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code and automation where appropriate.
• Ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant with security requirements.
• Identifying technical challenges and providing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Driving operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and performance optimisation.

Required Experience

To succeed in this role, candidates should possess:

• A strong background in Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps.
• Hands-on experience designing and building AWS infrastructure and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience in modernising or migrating legacy systems to cloud environments.
• A solid understanding of microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code practises.
• The ability to engage with both technical and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms and applications.

Desirable Experience

Candidates with the following qualifications will stand out:

• Python development or scripting experience.
• Exposure to mapping/GIS technologies.
• Experience in large-scale regulated or critical infrastructure environments.

Candidate Summary

This role is ideal for a senior engineer ready to assess National Grid's current systems and help build a robust future state. The successful contractor will be instrumental in designing secure and scalable AWS infrastructure to support modern applications and microservices while retiring legacy technology. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance overall engineering capability and contribute to best practises in a collaborative environment.

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