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: 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.