AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

The role at a glance

• Position: AWS Cloud Engineer / SRE
• Location: London (public sector environment)
• Contract length: 12 months
• IR35: Inside
• Rate: 650-662/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

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• 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.