AWS Cloud Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Prism Digital
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The AWS Cloud Engineer role involves designing, building, and operating AWS infrastructure for complex cloud workloads, focusing on security, scalability, and operational excellence. The position requires hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, and Python, and emphasizes collaboration with engineering and research teams. The contract is initially for 6–12 months and is based in London with a hybrid working arrangement. The engineer will be responsible for creating secure foundations that enhance developer experience and support experimentation and stability in the cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain a scalable, secure AWS multi-account landing zone.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Embed security, compliance, and governance controls across the platform.
- Build automation tools to enhance cloud adoption and developer experience.
- Support monitoring, alerting, and incident response in the AWS environment.
- Collaborate with internal teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize workloads.
- Track new AWS features and provide recommendations to stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience operating AWS at scale.
- Expertise in AWS security and governance services.
- Proficiency in Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Python scripting and tooling experience.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract) | AWS, Terraform & Python | Building Secure Research Platforms at Scale
Day Rate: £600–£800 per day
Contract Length: Initially 6–12 months
Location: London / Hybrid
The Role
In this role, you’ll design, build and operate the AWS infrastructure that underpins complex, high-impact cloud workloads used by engineering and research teams. You’ll own the AWS landing zone and core platform services, creating secure, scalable foundations that enable teams to work efficiently and safely in the cloud. This is a hands-on contract role focused on delivery, automation and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on security, governance and developer experience. You’ll work closely with engineers, platform teams and stakeholders to continuously evolve the cloud environment, ensuring it supports experimentation, scale and long-term stability.
What you'll do:
You’ll be a seasoned AWS engineer with a strong platform mindset. In this role, you will:
- AWS multi-account landing zone: Design, build, and maintain a scalable, secure landing zone across multiple accounts.
- IaC: (Terraform & CloudFormation): Implement IaC to automate provisioning and configuration of AWS resources.
- Security, compliance & governance: Embed controls across the platform to ensure best practices are followed.
- Automation & developer tooling: Build tools to simplify cloud adoption and improve the developer experience.
- Monitoring & observability: Support monitoring, alerting, and incident response across the AWS environment.
- Collaboration & optimisation: Work with internal teams to troubleshoot issues and optimise workloads.
- AWS service updates: Track new AWS features and provide practical recommendations to stakeholders.
You’ll need strong experience operating AWS at scale, with a clear understanding of security boundaries and governance in complex environments.
What You’ll Work With:
- AWS multi-account architecture
- AWS security and governance services
- Terraform infrastructure automation
- AWS CloudFormation
- Python scripting and tooling
- CI/CD pipelines and automation
- Monitoring and observability tooling
Why Join / Projects
You’ll be working on foundational cloud infrastructure that directly supports advanced research and engineering workloads. This contract offers the chance to own critical platform components, influence cloud strategy, and solve complex problems in a technically rigorous environment where quality and clarity matter. It’s well suited to contractors who enjoy building robust platforms, care deeply about security and automation, and want to work on systems that genuinely matter.
AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract) | AWS, Terraform & Python | Building Secure Research Platforms at Scale