AWS Cloud Engineer

The role at a glance Position: AWS Cloud Engineer / SRE Location: London (public sector environment) Contract length: 12 months IR35: Inside Rate: (Apply online only)/day Interview: Technical interview via Teams Security: Active SC clearance strongly preffered What you'll be working on Designing and running AWS infrastructure for critical digital services Building and maintaining DevOps / CI/CD toolchains to support multiple product teams Automating infrastructure and environments with Terraform, Bash and Python Owning monitoring, logging and reliability using CloudWatch and Grafana Supporting live test environments, troubleshooting complex issues and improving reliability Key technical stack AWS - strong experience, ideally backed by certification Core services: EC2, ALB, Auto Scaling Groups, VPC networking (routing, subnets, IGW, NACLs, security groups) Containers & orchestration: EKS CI/CD & tooling: Git (solid understanding of flows), GitLab CI admin (self‑hosted ideally), Artifactory admin Automation & scripting: Terraform, Bash, Python Observability: CloudWatch, Grafana, log‑based troubleshooting Specialist focuses within the team Landing Zone / Platform focus (SEO role for AMT product team): Building and managing secure AWS landing zones (essential) Proxy Squid (essential), ForitProxy (nice to have) Account Factory experience (nice to have) Networking / Ingress focus (SEO roles for Ingress team): Deep understanding of networking (OSI model, TCP/IP stack, TLS handshake, TCP 3‑way handshake) Transit Gateway and wider network design Network security - firewalls, WAF, Suricata (nice to have) Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills using logs and metrics What our client is looking for Hands‑on AWS engineering background, ideally in complex / regulated environments Solid DevOps mindset - you're comfortable automating, testing and operating what you build Experience designing with security controls embedded from the outset Ability to design and implement medium‑to‑high complexity scripts, services and integrations Strong problem‑solving and debugging skills in live and pre‑production environments If you have strong AWS, Terraform and CI/CD experience (especially with a focus on networking, landing zones or SRE‑style work) and are open to a new contract in London, this could be a very good fit