AWS Cloud Engineer
  • England,London,City of London
  • Full Time, Contract
  • £650 - £662 per day
Job Description:
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
*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.
Job number 3711721

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