AWS Cloud Engineer
CV-LibraryLondoncontractPosted: 4 May 2026
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Position: AWS Cloud Engineer / SRE
Location: London (public sector environment)
Contract length: 12 months
IR35: Inside
Rate: (Apply online only)/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
Position: AWS Cloud Engineer / SRE
Location: London (public sector environment)
Contract length: 12 months
IR35: Inside
Rate: (Apply online only)/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