Cloud Engineer - £550 Outside IR35 - 12 months - Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer - £550 Outside IR35 - 12 months - Edinburgh

Posted 3 days ago by Lorien

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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Summary: The AWS Cloud Engineer role involves designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure for a public sector client on a 12-month contract basis. The position requires expertise in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing cloud environments. The role is hybrid, based in Edinburgh, and classified as outside IR35. Candidates should possess strong hands-on AWS experience and excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively within engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments
  • Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with modular, reusable best practices
  • Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) and Git-based workflows
  • Optimising cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience
  • Managing monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and related tooling
  • Implementing automated patching and configuration management using AWS Systems Manager
  • Supporting database workloads in AWS, including RDS and associated backup and recovery processes
  • Working closely with infrastructure and security teams to ensure best practices across cloud environments

Key Skills:

  • Strong hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch)
  • Proven experience building and managing infrastructure using Terraform (modular IaC approach)
  • Experience with AWS-native CI/CD tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) or equivalent (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Strong understanding of Linux (RHEL) and/or Windows environments in AWS
  • Experience with AWS Systems Manager (patching, automation, inventory)
  • Knowledge of AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, networking controls)
  • Experience working within multi-account AWS environments and shared services models
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in cloud environments
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in engineering teams

Salary (Rate): £550 daily

City: Edinburgh

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

AWS Cloud Engineer - £500 - £550 per day Outside IR35 - 12 months - Edinburgh (Hybrid)

One of Lorien's key public sector clients is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join their team on an initial 12 month contract

Key Responsibilities:

  • Designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments
  • Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with modular, reusable best practices
  • Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) and Git-based workflows
  • Optimising cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience
  • Managing monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and related tooling
  • Implementing automated patching and configuration management using AWS Systems Manager
  • Supporting database workloads in AWS, including RDS and associated backup and recovery processes
  • Working closely with infrastructure and security teams to ensure best practices across cloud environments

Key Skills & Experience:

  • Strong hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch)
  • Proven experience building and managing infrastructure using Terraform (modular IaC approach)
  • Experience with AWS-native CI/CD tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) or equivalent (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Strong understanding of Linux (RHEL) and/or Windows environments in AWS
  • Experience with AWS Systems Manager (patching, automation, inventory)
  • Knowledge of AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, networking controls)
  • Experience working within multi-account AWS environments and shared services models
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in cloud environments
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in engineering teams

Desirable Skills:

  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps)
  • Experience working in public sector or regulated environments
  • Understanding of FinOps, tagging strategies, and cost control
  • Exposure to containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern engineering practices

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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