AWS Cloud Engineer

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to join a cloud platform and DevOps engineering team on an initial 6-month remote contract outside IR35. This role will focus on supporting and evolving a large-scale AWS environment with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes, automation, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native engineering. You'll work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to improve platform reliability, deployment automation, and operational maturity across a modern AWS estate.

• Strong hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience within production environments
• Strong Kubernetes experience including Amazon EKS, Docker, Helm Charts, and Karpenter
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Bamboo, Octopus Deploy, Bitbucket, or similar tooling
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using CloudFormation and AWS CDK
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, PowerShell, or similar
• Experience supporting containerised applications across EKS and ECS

Strong experience across AWS services and monitoring and observability tooling including:

• EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda
• RDS PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB
• VPC, Route53, Security Groups, ACM
• EventBridge, SNS, SQS, SES
• API Gateway and CloudFront
• CloudWatch
• Splunk
• New Relic