Cloud Engineer

Junior AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Birmingham

Work Model :Onsite

Employment Type: Contract

We are seeking an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join a leading global consulting organisation and contribute to projects with a major investment banking client. You’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing AWS infrastructure solutions that deliver scalability, security, and reliability across enterprise environments.

This role requires strong hands-on expertise in AWS services, DevOps practices, and commercial AWS deployments. It is ideally suited to professionals with up to 3 years of AWS infrastructure and DevOps experience who are looking to take the next step in their career.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure to support enterprise applications and services.
• Implement and manage AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and others.
• Drive DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of AWS environments.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (developers, architects, security, operations) to deliver robust cloud solutions.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize AWS resources for cost efficiency.
• Provide documentation, best practices, and knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven AWS Infrastructure experience in enterprise or commercial environments.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with AWS services (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring).
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture, networking, and security principles .
• Experience with AWS commercial deployments and managing production workloads.
• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer ) are highly desirable.

If your skills and experience match the requirements, we encourage you to apply today.