Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer – Landing Zones & AI

London (Hybrid)

£500 per day Inside IR35

2 Month initial contract

We’re looking for a senior AWS Cloud Engineer to support two concurrent initiatives: a lift‐and‐shift migration into AWS and the build‐out of a secure AWS Landing Zone, including work on an AI environment using Amazon Bedrock and containerised workloads. The role requires strong hands‐on AWS engineering capability across networking, compute, IAM, and secure cloud design.

Skills & Responsibilities

• Design and build secure AWS Landing Zones (Control Tower, multi‐account structure, SCPs, guardrails).
• Deliver lift‐and‐shift migrations of applications and services into AWS.
• Deploy and manage EC2 environments, including high‐memory / GPU‐enabled instances.
• Configure VPC architecture, private‐only networking, subnets, routing, VPC Endpoints (Interface & Gateway), and AWS PrivateLink.
• Implement and manage IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, and least‐privilege access models.
• Deploy and support containerised workloads on EC2 using Docker.
• Integrate workloads with Amazon Bedrock Runtime APIs or other AWS AI services.
• Implement secure storage patterns using S3, bucket policies, encryption, and private access methods.
• Configure logging, monitoring, and observability through CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Security Hub, etc.
• Apply AWS security best practice, including KMS, WAF, network isolation, and encrypted workloads.
• Support hybrid connectivity patterns (VPN, Transit Gateway where required).
• Provide validation, testing, documentation, and handover to internal teams.
• Work autonomously across two projects, supporting technical workshops and stakeholder discussions.

If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note, due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every applicant.

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