AWS Cloud Engineer

£55,000 to 70,000 GBPHybrid WORKINGLocation: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

Cloud Engineer - AWSLocation: London - Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)

Salary: £55,000-£70,000 DOE

Security requirement: Sole UK Citizen / Sole UK National, eligible to obtain the required level of UK security clearance.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on AWS expertise to join a specialist engineering team delivering secure, cloud-based solutions across national security, government and public-sector environments.

You will work within an autonomous DevOps team, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining applications and cloud services on AWS. Working closely with technical teams and end users, you will help solve complex problems, improve cloud capabilities and deliver reliable, scalable and secure systems.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of technical solutions, work across the full delivery lifecycle and contribute to projects with real-world impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain cloud-based applications and services using AWS.
• Configure and manage AWS infrastructure to deliver secure, scalable and reliable solutions.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code principles to automate the provisioning and management of cloud environments.
• Develop scripts and application components using Python, Bash, Shell or other suitable programming languages.
• Work with AWS services to support compute, storage, networking, security and application integration.
• Contribute to the full software delivery lifecycle, from requirements and design through to deployment and ongoing support.
• Apply DevOps principles to automate deployments, improve reliability and streamline engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with technical colleagues and stakeholders to understand requirements and develop effective solutions.
• Implement monitoring, logging and observability practices to maintain performance and reliability.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud architecture, operational efficiency and cost management.
• Work within Agile teams, sharing knowledge and contributing to continuous improvement.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong practical experience with AWS, with the ability to design and implement cloud solutions confidently.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, Elastic Load Balancing, SNS, SQS and IAM.