--- title: 'AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at StarCompliance' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/aws-cloud-infrastructure-engineer-starcompliance-leeds-9txqe87rba7c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at StarCompliance - **Company:** StarCompliance - **Location:** Leeds, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/starcompliance/7ee7068a-dfa8-4d56-9add-31207a48b6ae ## Job description Role: The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is an experienced individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure supporting a production-grade, multi-account B2B SaaS platform in the financial services industry. This role is critical to maintaining platform resilience, security, automation maturity, and operational excellence across production and non-production environments. The engineer operates with moderate autonomy, owning defined areas of the AWS environment while contributing to infrastructure standards, reliability engineering, and security best practices. ## Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments - Support application deployments and underlying platform services required for reliable operation - Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) - Configure and maintain AWS services including compute, storage, networking, and managed services - Monitor infrastructure health, availability, and performance; respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis - Partner with application engineering and security teams to support system reliability and scalability - Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions - Support automation related to infrastructure provisioning and application deployments - Manage IAM roles, permissions, and access controls in alignment with security policies - Contribute to cloud cost monitoring and optimization efforts - Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures - Participate in on-call or incident response rotations as required Core AWS & Cloud Technologies Compute & Containers - Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) - Amazon EC2 - Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) - AWS Lambda (event-driven workloads) Networking & Edge - Amazon VPC (multi-AZ design, subnet segmentation) - Internet Gateway (IGW) - VPC Peering - Elastic Load Balancing (ALB) - ## AWS WAF - Amazon Route 53 - AWS Data Transfer optimization Databases & Caching - Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) and PSQL - Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB compatibility) - Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) Messaging & Streaming - Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) Security & Compliance - ## AWS IAM - ## AWS KMS - AWS Secrets Manager - AWS Config - AWS CloudTrail - Amazon GuardDuty - Amazon Inspector - ## AWS WAF - Auth0 Monitoring & Observability - Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, events) CI/CD & DevOps - CircleCI - BitBucket - Github - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Storage & Data Lifecycle - Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Managed Platform Services - AWS Transfer Family - Amazon WorkSpaces (administrative environments) ## Skills and Experience - Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS environments in a multi-account architecture. - Deep experience with containerized platforms (ECS) and distributed system design. - Proven experience managing relational and document databases in high-availability configurations. - Strong understanding of secure VPC architecture, ingress/egress control, and network isolation strategies. - Experience operating Kafka-based streaming architectures (MSK). - Expertise implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform. - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads. - Strong knowledge of IAM design, encryption practices, and secrets management. - Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation for production systems. - Ability to troubleshoot performance, networking, scaling, and availability issues across distributed systems. - Experience supporting regulated or compliance-sensitive environments (e.g., financial services). - Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and code development while maintaining security and compliance standards. - Strong judgment in the responsible use of AI tools to enhance productivity, improve code quality, and streamline operational workflows within regulated environments. - Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills. ## Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems engineering roles. - AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent) preferred. Integrity and Ethics - All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner ## About StarCompliance ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: StarCompliance provides employee and firm compliance software that helps regulated companies monitor conflicts of interest, meet regulatory obligations, and reduce risk. - **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-backed by Luminate Capital Partners; last known round: Venture, December 2020) - **Headquarters**: Rockville, Maryland, United States (with presence in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong; workforce distributed across 6 countries including the US, UK, India, UAE, and Germany) - **Founded**: Not publicly available (earliest known milestone: 2017 Luminate Capital Partners investment) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services / RegTech — employee compliance software for regulated institutions. - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise — the world’s most reputable companies, including broker-dealers, banks, and financial services firms, operating in 114 countries. - **Mission / purpose**: "Employee compliance software that protects the world’s most reputable companies against risk and costly conflicts of interest" — helping clients "comply with confidence" via a scalable, cloud-ready platform. ## Products & Services - **Employee Conflicts of Interest Suite**: A single platform covering personal trading activity, insider trading, private investments, gifts & entertainment spending, outside business activities, and political donations. - **STAR Mobile App**: Enables on-the-go personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts & entertainment submissions, with mobile review/approval for compliance officers and supervisors. - **Compliance Control Room**: Centralizes firm deal-related activity, surfaces critical data, and accelerates deal clearance through easier conflict searches. - **Crypto Dealing Monitoring**: Pre-clearance and post-trade oversight across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, and 200+ tokens (expanded via the acquisition of AER Compliance). - **Firm Trade Surveillance**: Automatically compares firm trades against watch lists and restricted lists to detect potential trading risks. - **Broker-Dealer Registration**: Registration offering with automated, two-way FINRA integration. - **Individual Accountability & Training & Competency**: Products supporting clients subject to Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). - **MNPI Management**: Centralizes material non-public information oversight with wall crossings, insider lists, and restricted lists. - **StarAssist**: AI-powered explainability capability that makes compliance decisions more transparent. - **Prediction Markets Monitoring**: Industry-first solution launched in partnership with Kalshi. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$35M (per LinkedIn company data); 1.35M clients supported (per company website) - **Funding History**: Private Equity Round (July 2017) led by Luminate Capital Partners; Venture Round (December 2020). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Luminate Capital Partners; technology integrations with Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI; partnership with Kalshi. - **Growth Signals**: 40% Y/Y growth and 99% customer retention rate (per careers page); LinkedIn followers grew +63.8% year-over-year to ~15,167; aggressive hiring in AI, data, and engineering roles; product expansion into crypto and prediction markets monitoring; strategic acquisition of AER Compliance and earlier acquisitions including SixLambda (6L) and Ethix360. ## Competitive Advantages - **One connected platform**: Uniquely combines employee compliance and firm compliance in a single, real-time solution spanning activities, risks, and decisions. - **Multi-jurisdictional integrity**: Built for global, cross-border regulatory needs across 114 countries. - **AI-first, transparent compliance**: StarAssist provides AI-powered explainability — a differentiator in a risk-averse industry. - **First-mover in emerging asset classes**: Crypto coverage across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, and 200+ tokens; first-to-market Prediction Markets Monitoring with Kalshi. - **On-demand configurability and modern integrations**: Cloud-ready architecture with native connectivity to Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI. ## Strategic Focus - **Doubling down on AI**: Actively hiring a Head of Data and AI, Lead AI Engineer (Agentic Systems), and Senior AI Engineers — signaling a platform-wide push toward agentic and explainable AI. - **Expanding into new regulatory domains**: Prediction markets monitoring (via Kalshi), crypto dealing, and individual accountability/SMCR. - **Growing firm-wide compliance**: Moving beyond employee conflicts into firm trade surveillance and control room workflows. - **Post-acquisition integration**: Absorbing AER Compliance and earlier acquisitions (SixLambda, Ethix360) to broaden the suite. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a "fun, fast-moving environment where creativity is rewarded and hard work is valued," with a collaborative culture and values of dignity, trust, and respect. - **Work model**: Flexible work arrangements and hybrid roles; current UK engineering roles are hybrid in Leeds (AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer) and York (Lead Design Engineer UX/UI and AI); some remote-friendly UK roles (Head of Data and AI). - **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, family-friendly policies, paid time off including bank/public holidays. - **Learning & development**: Varied learning programs and global "Star Seminars" to keep skills sharp. - **Employee ratings**: 4.1/5 on LinkedIn (155 reviews) — Work-Life Balance 4.2, Culture 4.2, Career 4.0, Compensation 3.7. - **Momentum**: 40% Y/Y growth and 99% customer retention provide stability and career upside. ## Sources 1. [starcompliance.com — About Us](https://www.starcompliance.com/about-us/) 2. [starcompliance.com — Home](https://www.starcompliance.com/) 3. [jobs.lever.co — StarCompliance](https://jobs.lever.co/starcompliance) 4. [starcompliance.com — Careers](https://www.starcompliance.com/careers/) 5. [linkedin.com — StarCompliance](https://www.linkedin.com/company/starcompliance) ## Other roles at StarCompliance - [Lead Design Engineer UX/UI and AI](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-design-engineer-ux-ui-and-ai-starcompliance-york-d9r5r9hhn96f) — York, United Kingdom - [Quality Engineer (SDET)](https://feeny.ai/job/quality-engineer-sdet-starcompliance-united-kingdom-41khpye1an8d) — United Kingdom - [Head of Data and AI - UK Based](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-data-and-ai-uk-based-starcompliance-remote-9ag52hsm7eym) - [Platform Quality Engineer (SDET)](https://feeny.ai/job/platform-quality-engineer-sdet-starcompliance-united-kingdom-a1n025vkrw17) — United Kingdom