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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Engineer - **Company:** BAE Systems - **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £55,292.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Mercurial, Routing, Perforce, Scrum Methodology, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, Scripting, Firewalls (Computer Science), Git, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Extreme Programming, Build Tools, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Api Design, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Software Version Control, Atlassian Bamboo, Docker, Jenkins, Microservices - **Published:** July 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5809635208 ## About the Role You will have experience in many of the following: * Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues; Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert * Demonstrable expertise with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM * Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, or Python * Good coding experience of at least 1 Lambda compatible language * Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (eg CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) * Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example Git, Mercurial, Perforce * Great communication and problem solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies * Working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc) It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we'll help you with them * AWS Certification at Associate level eg Solution Architect, Developer or DevOps * Expertise in microservices and API design * Docker, and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS etc * Strong understand of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, FinOps * Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket, in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes * Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks * A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc ## Description Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced AWS Developer. As a key member of a Software Engineering team, you'll be working with our National Security Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You'll work as part of empowered, autonomous DevOps teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services on AWS. You'll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career. We fully embrace DevOps ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers. We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You'll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Pluralsight. It's an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer's exciting cloud adoption journey. 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