AWS Cloud Engineer Full Time NEW

AWS Cloud Engineer

PAYE rate: £371.04 per day PAYE plus flexible holiday pay

6 month contract

London local authority client

The Lead Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, delivering and continuously improving secure, scalable, high-performing cloud infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud platforms. The role leads cloud architecture, automation, governance and operational excellence, ensuring cloud services are resilient, cost-effective and aligned to organisational security and compliance standards.

The position provides technical leadership for cloud engineering strategy, infrastructure modernisation and migration activities, while supporting DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. It also includes stakeholder engagement, mentoring engineers, supporting multidisciplinary delivery teams and contributing to enterprise architecture and cyber security governance.

Key focus areas include:

• Multi-cloud platform engineering (AWS & GCP)
• Cloud architecture and infrastructure strategy
• Security, compliance and governance
• Automation and CI/CD
• Cloud migration and optimisation
• Operational support and service reliability
• Team leadership and mentoring
• Stakeholder collaboration and technical assurance

Key Criteria

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience designing and managing enterprise cloud platforms in AWS
• Expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation and DevOps practices
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance and compliance frameworks
• Experience leading large-scale cloud migration and transformation projects
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, systems integration and platform engineering
• Ability to develop cloud standards, policies and operational procedures
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring and line management
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams

We will also add your details to our mail out lists. Please note you may receive details of roles outside of your immediate vicinity, as many candidates are able to relocate temporarily for work. Please disregard any such emails that are not of interest and let us know if you would rather not receive such mailouts and/or if you wish us to delete your details and prefer to apply direct to our advertised roles.

If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us.

Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.