SC Cleared Lead AWS Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Current SC Clearance
• Strong experience with Terraform and ideally Terragrunt
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience building and managing Jenkins pipelines
• Strong knowledge of GitLab and/or GitHub
• Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, ELB and ACM
• Experience managing AWS Organizations in multi-account environments
• Strong AWS networking experience including Transit Gateway, VPC design, routing and connectivity
• Experience with AWS WAF
• Familiarity with ServiceNow
• Experience with LogicMonitor, Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic or similar monitoring platforms
• Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management
• Python and/or Bash scripting
• Experience with Kubernetes or EKS

Responsibilities

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Automate configuration management and deployments with Ansible
• Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
• Manage source control and deployment workflows in GitLab and/or GitHub
• Deploy and support AWS services including ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, ELB and ACM
• Manage multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations
• Design and support AWS networking including Transit Gateway, VPC peering, routing and connectivity
• Implement and maintain AWS WAF policies and rules
• Support incident, request and change management processes through ServiceNow
• Monitor platform and application performance using LogicMonitor or similar observability tools
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous platform improvements

Technologies

• API
• AWS
• Ansible
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Datadog
• EC2
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Python
• ServiceNow
• Terraform
• WAF
• DevOps

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We are seeking an SC Cleared Lead AWS Engineer to help design, build and support cloud infrastructure and automation within a Cloud Centre of Excellence. This is a remote, 6 month+ contract role offered at £700-£750 per day inside IR35. We operate in a complex enterprise environment and are looking for someone with strong hands-on experience across AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, networking and platform operations.

last updated 36 week of 2026