Cloud Engineer AWS Python

Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

• A strong background combining core Python development with hands-on AWS infrastructure work
• Hands-on experience with S3, Lambda, ECS, SQS, RDS and EC2
• Proven experience deploying environments with Terraform
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration such as ECS
• Familiarity with data transformation strategies, high-volume data streams, and solid Git and CI/CD practices (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Python applications for real-time decision making and large-scale data transformation
• Provision and scale secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Architect cost-efficient, low-latency, high-throughput solutions without compromising reliability
• Deploy serverless and containerised workloads across Lambda, ECS, EC2, SQS, S3 and RDS
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, builds and deployments
• Set up monitoring and logging with CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to keep systems running smoothly

Technologies

• AWS
• Lambda
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Docker
• EC2
• Git
• Python
• Serverless
• Terraform
• DevOps

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We are a technically led and growing UK-based company offering a Cloud Engineer role with end-to-end ownership across Python application development and AWS infrastructure. This role can be worked remotely within the UK or hybrid from our Southwest-based head office in the Bristol, Bath, Exeter area, with occasional office visits for those further afield. The salary is £70,000 basic plus an extensive benefits package. We work closely with an established cloud engineering team on scalable, high-performance data solutions, and we offer the chance to work with the latest AWS technologies on complex, real-world data challenges.

last updated 36 week of 2026