Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer – Contract

London / Hybrid – 3 Days per Week onsite

6-Month Initial Contract

Outside IR35 – Negotiable Rate

We are supporting a major enterprise transformation programme seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Operations Engineer to join a high-performing AWS operations team.

This is a hands-on contract role focused on maintaining secure, stable, and highly available cloud infrastructure while driving automation and operational improvements across a complex AWS estate.

The successful contractor will combine strong AWS and Linux operational expertise with a proactive automation mindset, helping evolve operational processes from reactive support towards intelligent, automated cloud operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure in a BAU operations environment
• Troubleshoot incidents across Linux servers, cloud infrastructure, networking, and applications
• Perform patching, upgrades, maintenance, and operational support activities
• Support vulnerability remediation and operational security activities
• Drive automation initiatives using scripting and cloud-native tooling
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational efficiency
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities
• Work closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and engineering teams

Required Experience

• Strong experience supporting AWS cloud environments in an operational role
• Solid Linux / RHEL administration skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, CloudTrail and CloudWatch.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting: Ansible, Bash, Python and PowerShell.
• Experience working within ITIL / enterprise operational environments
• Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog highly desirable)

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to DevOps / SRE practices
• Terraform or Infrastructure as Code experience
• CI/CD tooling exposure
• Container platform knowledge
• Experience with AI-assisted operations or operational automation initiatives
• AWS certifications

Additional Information

• Participation in an on-call rota required
• Immediate start preferred
• Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential

If you are an experienced AWS Cloud Operations Engineer with a strong automation mindset and a passion for improving cloud operations at scale, please apply for further details.