Lead Cloud Operations Engineer (AWS, EC2, EKS)

Spectrum IT Recruitment
London, UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Cloud Computing Databases Identity and Access Management PostgreSQL Linux System Administration MySQL Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon Relational Database Service Containerization
+2 more
Kubernetes Terraform

Job description

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer - Technical Lead

Large Government Project Global Tech/AI Business
  • Full-Time. UK only
  • Hybrid Working, London (Barbican). 2 Days a week onsite.
  • Applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance

Looking for an opportunity to make a real impact on a major government programme?

We’re recruiting an experienced (Tech Lead) AWS Cloud Operations Engineer to join a large-scale project focused on onboarding a major public sector client and delivering highly secure communication services. This is a key role within a growing engineering team, helping to build, support and optimise cloud platforms that underpin critical services.

You’ll work across AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux environments, container platforms and databases, helping to ensure secure, scalable and highly available systems.

What we’re looking for:

  • Strong AWS cloud experience - 5+ years (EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC)
  • Linux systems administration expertise - 5+ years
  • Containerisation and Kubernetes experience - 3+ years
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code knowledge - 3+ years
  • Database administration experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora or similar)
  • A passion for reliability, security and continuous improvement

Why apply?

  • Join a major long-term government project
  • Work on secure, mission-critical technology
  • Excellent opportunity to influence architecture and operational excellence
  • Be part of a global technology organisation investing heavily in growth and innovation

If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and want to play a key role in a high-profile programme, we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

  • Strong AWS cloud experience - 5+ years (EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC)
  • Linux systems administration expertise - 5+ years
  • Containerisation and Kubernetes experience - 3+ years
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code knowledge - 3+ years
  • Database administration experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora or similar)
  • A passion for reliability, security and continuous improvement

Benefits & conditions

  • Full-Time. UK only
  • Hybrid Working, London (Barbican). 2 Days a week onsite.
  • Applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance, * Join a major long-term government project
  • Work on secure, mission-critical technology
  • Excellent opportunity to influence architecture and operational excellence
  • Be part of a global technology organisation investing heavily in growth and innovation

If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and want to play a key role in a high-profile programme, we’d love to hear from you. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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