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.