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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Montash Limited - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Github, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Routing, Peering, Ansible, Datadog, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, SC Clearance, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Terraform, New Relic (SaaS), Jenkins, Servicenow - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-F224BE301EF0C48219/ ## About the Role Must-have: * Active, transferable SC clearance * Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (Terragrunt strongly preferred), including designing standards/modules for wider team consumption * Proven experience managing AWS Organizations in multi-account, governed environments * Strong AWS networking background: Transit Gateway, VPC design, routing, connectivity * Core AWS services: ACM, ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, ELB * AWS WAF policy and rule management * Jenkins pipeline ownership, GitLab and/or GitHub workflow strategy * Ansible for configuration management and automation * ServiceNow queue/ticket management * LogicMonitor or equivalent (Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic) * Demonstrable experience operating at a "lead" or de facto technical authority level, setting standards, not just following them Nice-to-have: * Prior formal Cloud Centre of Excellence or platform governance experience * Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management * Python or Bash Scripting * Kubernetes/EKS or containerisation beyond ECS ## Description An enterprise environment undergoing formal change management is building out its Cloud Centre of Excellence and needs a Lead AWS Engineer to define standards and best practice for how AWS is used across the organisation, while remaining hands-on with infrastructure delivery, automation, and governance across a multi-account estate., * Define and own Terraform/Terragrunt module standards and reusable IaC patterns for consumption by other engineering teams, not just personal delivery * Set governance, security, and billing policy across multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations, including SCP and guardrail design * Architect and maintain core AWS services (ACM, ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, ELB) and network architecture (Transit Gateway, VPC peering, routing) at an organisation-wide standard * Own AWS WAF policy and rule strategy to protect application workloads across multiple teams/services * Chair or contribute to architecture and governance reviews, providing technical direction to engineers building against CCoE standards * Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, and set repository/branching strategy across GitLab and/or GitHub * Automate configuration management using Ansible, and define automation standards for the wider team * Own observability strategy using LogicMonitor or equivalent, setting alerting, dashboard, and performance baseline standards * Support incident, request, and change management processes via ServiceNow, acting as an escalation point for complex issues * Act as technical mentor/reference point for engineers delivering against guardrails ## Related Videos - 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