Contract Virtual Private Cloud Jobs in the UK

13 of 13 Contract Virtual Private Cloud Jobs in the UK

Environment Management SME

London, United Kingdom
Whitehall Resources Ltd
based in London *Please note this requires 3 days onsite weekly + falls INSIDE IR35* Your responsibilities: . Environment Management SME with Hands-on experience on AWS DevOps, AWS Cloud environment management, experience with Setting up and running Cloud environment. implement, and maintain observability platforms using Datadog and Geneos to ensure comprehensive monitoring and alerting. . Design and … . Optimize alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve actionable insights. . Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the evolution of SRE best practices. . Oversee and continuously optimize cloud cost management strategies for our Observability infrastructure in line with Cloud FinOps principles. . Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with long … practices and emerging technologies in Observability, DevOps and Cloud. Essential skills/knowledge/experience: . Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS . Strong hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform. . Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (eg, GitLab More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: GBP Annual
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Lead DevOps Architect

London, United Kingdom
Stott & May Professional Search Limited
Rate: Market rate (Inside IR35) Contract Duration: 6 months Role Summary We are looking for an experienced DevOps Lead/Architect to design, implement, and maintain scalable observability and cloud infrastructure. The successful candidate will embed reliability, performance, and automation into our systems, champion GitOps practices, and provide technical leadership to deliver robust, high-availability solutions. Key Responsibilities Architect … and maintain observability platforms using Datadog and Geneos for comprehensive monitoring and alerting. Design and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC principles. Implement and promote GitOps workflows with GitLab for CI/CD and deployment automation. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance in software delivery. Optimise alerting and monitoring strategies to improve actionable … cost management for observability infrastructure in line with Cloud FinOps principles. Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS). Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins for Java and Python microservices architectures. More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £750 - £800 per day
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Contract AWS Cloud Engineer

Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Contract AWS Cloud Engineer - Enhanced SC/DV Clearance Duration: 6 Months Location: Leeds (Full-time, Onsite) IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Start Date: November 2025 We're looking for an experienced Contract AWS Cloud Engineer to join a secure government-related project based onsite in Leeds. This role is ideally suited to someone with strong hands-on AWS … experience and a solid understanding of cloud security and automation within highly regulated environments. Please note: Due to the nature of the work, candidates must hold active Enhanced SC or DV Clearance. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applicants without this level of clearance. Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure in a secure, scalable, and resilient environments. … engineering and security teams to deliver high-quality, compliant solutions. Technical Skills & Experience: Proven experience with core AWS services: EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, KMS, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, SQS, SNS. Strong background in cloud security and monitoring (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Config, CloudWatch). Familiarity with DevOps practices including Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: Salary negotiable
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Sr.Databricks Engineer (AWS)

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
eTeam Inc
guidance to junior engineers. Must-Have Skills: Strong hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark (preferably PySpark). Proven track record of building and optimizing data pipelines in cloud environments. Experience with AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Athena, IAM, and VPC. Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks. Familiarity with GitLab for version control More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
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AWS Platform Engineer - SC Cleared

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
classic and network load balancers. Target groups and rule configuration EC2 - Security Groups - Access permissions ECS - CIS1 Container platform. Docker containers running on above EC2 instances Route53 - DNS Management VPC - Subnets and routing VPC - WAF (Firewall), NACL (Access control lists) and Direct connect configuration VPC - Peering connections. Connectivity between VPCs and other AWS Accounts Lambda - Majority of functions written in More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £500 - £535/day Insie IR35
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Technical Lead

United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Brightbox GRP Ltd
SC Clearance Inside IR35 We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join our dynamic team, where your extensive technical expertise will play a pivotal role in shaping our cloud solutions. If you have a deep understanding of AWS services and a passion for leveraging technology to drive innovation, this is the opportunity for you. Your leadership capabilities will … ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cloud-native applications that are scalable, secure, and resilient. Technical Skills: - Deep understanding of core AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation. - Experience with serverless architectures and containerization, such as ECS, EKS, and Fargate. - Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and cost optimisation strategies. - Proficiency in tools like … and logging tools, including CloudWatch, ELK stack, and Prometheus/Grafana. - Strong coding skills in languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or Go. - Ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native applications. Additional Experience Required: - Ability to act on own authority to manage and provide direction to projects, maintaining information and analysis used to justify decisions. - Experience in building More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
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Cloudera Administrator - London

London, United Kingdom
Square One Resources
cloud version CDP Knowledge of Cloudera data services (CDW, CDE, CDF, CAI) Design Native Cloud Application Architectures and optimize applications for AWS Network connectivity, Direct Connect, VPN, VPC, Security group, NACL, Route 53 Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerisation - Glue, Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Amazon DocumentDB, PostgreSQL) Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/… code Hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment) Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organisations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies. Environment and application automation CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy AWS Cost Management and Optimisation Required Skills/Experience The ideal candidate will have the … Solid Scripting skills in Shell and Python. Extensive experience in designing, provisioning, deploying and configurtion of the Cloudera cluster based on customers need Extensive experience in AWS service - EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53 etc and should be able to design and deploy cloudera cluster on AWS cloud Strong knowledge of data processing using Cloudera services Good More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: GBP 400 - 500 Daily
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DevOps Engineer

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lorien
contract - Inside IR35 - Banking Senior AWS Infrastructure DevOps Engineer (Hands-On Role) Take a hands-on lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable AWS infrastructure to support cloud-native applications. Champion DevOps best practices, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities: Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure … Kubernetes. Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts. Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Grafana, and Splunk. Optimise infrastructure with Karpenter for autoscaling and cost efficiency. Ensure robust AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53) and enforce security best practices. Drive incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning. Key Technologies: AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3), Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes … Helm, Cassandra, OTel, Grafana, Splunk, Karpenter, Python, Bash. Desirable: Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee Hybrid, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: Salary negotiable
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Senior DevOps Engineer

South West London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Alexander Edward James Consulting Limited
Weareseekinganexperienced SeniorDevOpsEngineer withstrongexpertiseinnetworkappliancesandcloudinfrastructure,toworkwithagovernmentdepartment.Thisisa12monthcontract,paying£750perday,insideIR35,hybridworking(3daysperweekonsite) ActiveSCClearanceisrequiredpriortocommencingtheassignment. KeyResponsibilities Design,implement,andadministerF5appliancesinAWS Standardisemultiplenetworksolutionsintoasingle,self-servicepattern ConfigureandmanagePaloAltoandCheckPointfirewallsinenterpriseenvironments Buildandmanagesecure,scalableAWSinfrastructure(EC2,VPC,IAM,TransitGateway,VPN,etc.) DevelopandmaintainCI/CDpipelines(Jenkins,GitLabCI) AutomateinfrastructureusingTerraform,Ansible,andIaC/CaCmethodologies Monitor,troubleshoot,andoptimisehybridsystems,networks,andapplications Collaboratewithsecurity,development,andoperationsteamstoembedDevSecOpsbestpractices Participateinincidentresponseandrootcauseanalysis Documentinfrastructure,processes,andtopologies RequiredSkillsandExperience Hands-onexpertisewithF5loadbalancers StrongexperiencewithPaloAltoNetworksandCheckPointfirewalls KnowledgeofZscaler(preferred) Strongunderstandingofnetworkingprotocols(TCP/IP,DNS,SSL …/TLS,routing) ProficiencywithAWSservicesincludingEC2,ELB,VPC,S3,CloudWatch,IAM,etc. ExperiencewithDevOpstools:Git,Jenkins,Docker,Ansible,Terraform Strongscriptingskills(Bash,Python,orsimilar) Backgroundinmanagingproductionsystemswithinregulatedorhigh-availabilityenvironments Experiencementoringandsupportingjuniorengineers More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £750 per day
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Senior Network Engineer

West Midlands (County), Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sherborne Talent Solutions
I'm currently seeking a hands-on Senior Network Engineer on a contract basis for my client to deliver critical network transformation projects across our hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments. This role requires deep technical expertise in network architecture, operations, and cybersecurity best practices, with a strong focus on execution and delivery. Engagement Scope: Deliver a network refresh … in AWS, separating production and non-production environments. Key Responsibilities: Design, implement, and support enterprise network infrastructure across Cisco and Palo Alto on-premises environments, and Azure/AWS cloud platforms. Lead deployment and optimisation of SD-WAN and SASE/SSE technologies (e.g., Netskope, Zscaler, Cisco Umbrella). Manage and maintain secure network architectures including firewalls, VPNs, switching … . Proven track record with SD-WAN deployments. Practical knowledge of SSE/SASE platforms (e.g., Netskope, Zscaler, Prisma Access). Experience with AWS and/or Azure networking (VPC/VNet, transit gateways, peering, VPNs). Proficiency with monitoring and troubleshooting tools (NetFlow, Wireshark, CloudWatch, Grafana). Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills. Preferred Certifications: Cisco: CCNP, CCIE AWS More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
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AWS Solution Architect Python Background

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Robert Half
s NI & Tax deducted at source, unlike umbrella companies and no umbrella company admin fees Start Date: ASAP Key Skills & Experience Strong banking background Deep AWS architecture expertise across VPC, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and KMS Strong Python development background (boto3, FastAPI, automation tooling, testing frameworks) Hands-on Terraform experience at module level, including policy … building the next generation of secure AWS services. This position suits a technically strong architect who codes, comfortable working across architecture, engineering, and data science teams to deliver compliant, cloud-native patterns that scale. You'll design landing zones, reusable modules, and observability frameworks, all aligned to enterprise controls and best practice. All candidates must complete standard screening (Right … to Work, DBS, credit/sanctions, employment verification). This is an exciting opportunity for a cloud-focused AWS Python Solution Architect to join a high-impact programme and help design, secure, and scale modern AWS platforms within a leading enterprise organisation. Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
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AWS Security Architect

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
ECS
mitigation. Responsibilities: Previous experience in security architecture, including 5+ years in AWS cloud security, Deep AWS security expertise and large-scale migration experience Strong background in network security, VPC architecture, and hybrid connectivity AWS Security Certifications are desirable Knowledge of security automation and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation). Further Information Available upon Application. ECS Resource Group are an Equal Opportunity More ❯
Employment Type: Contract, Work From Home
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
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Network Architect - Warwickshire

Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Crimson
Network Architect - Warwickshire 6 Months Outside IR35 - Up to £650 per day The Network Solution Architect designs and documents enterprise network architectures for LAN, WAN, WLAN, and cloud environments to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and security. This role collaborates with stakeholders to align solutions with business objectives, maintains network standards and roadmaps, leads designs for data centers and cloud … networking issues, updating architecture standards to meet business and compliance needs, and integrating security features like Zero Trust, segmentation, and NAC into designs. Key skills Design network architectures for cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. Integrate hybrid and multi-cloud networks and services. Develop automation tools and scripts for network management and operational processes (e.g., Terraform … segmentation, NAC Familiar with frameworks: ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR Track record ensuring compliance in network designs Experience with cloud networking (AWS Transit Gateway, Azure VNet, GCP VPC, ExpressRoute) Interested!?! Please send your up to date CV to Crimson for immediate review Not interested?! Do you know anyone that might be? Refer a friend for this role to More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
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Virtual Private Cloud
10th Percentile
£400
25th Percentile
£463
Median
£525
75th Percentile
£625
90th Percentile
£713