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# Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Albert Bow
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Audit Trail, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery, Multi-Factor Authentication, Failover, Identity and Access Management, Role-Based Access Control, Runbook, SQL Databases, System Availability, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Cloudwatch, Terraform
- **Published:** May 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/senior-aws-cloud-engineer-city-of-london-london/2774288351-2/

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on AWS experience (5+ years)
 * Proven experience with:
 * High availability & failover design
 * Backup, replication & disaster recovery
 * AWS networking & security architecture
 * Deep understanding of:
 * IAM (RBAC, least privilege, MFA)
 * CloudWatch, CloudTrail, logging & monitoring
 * Experience implementing:
 * AWS WAF & Network Firewall (or similar)
 * Secure VPC design (segmentation, NACLs, security groups)

Technical Tools

 * Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation preferred)
 * AWS services: EC2, RDS/SQL, EBS, ELB, VPC

Bonus

 * Experience in security-focused or regulated environments
 * Strong documentation & stakeholder communication skills

By the end of the contract, you will have delivered:

 * A fully hardened AWS environment
 * Tested and validated failover & DR processes
 * Complete monitoring, alerting, and security controls
 * Clear documentation and runbooks for ongoing operations

## Description

We're looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Architect to lead a critical cloud hardening and resilience project.

You'll take an existing AWS environment and transform it into a secure, highly available, production-grade platform - implementing best-in-class backup, failover, disaster recovery, and security controls.

This is a hands-on delivery role with architectural ownership.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Design and implement backup & disaster recovery strategy (RTO/RPO defined)
 * Build multi-AZ, highly available architectures with automated failover
 * Implement AWS Network Firewall & WAF for full perimeter security
 * Harden environments with least privilege IAM, MFA, and access controls
 * Set up CloudWatch, CloudTrail & VPC Flow Logs for monitoring and audit
 * Deliver Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / scripts)
 * Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and DR procedures
 * Execute testing & validation (failover, backup restore, DR simulation)


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