Senior AWS Engineer/ 6 month Contract/ Fully Remote/ Outside IR35
Posted 2 days ago by Cloud Bridge
£500 Per day
Outside
Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior AWS Engineer role involves joining a Professional Services delivery team to support a major AWS migration and separation programme for an enterprise customer. The position requires hands-on involvement in building, migrating, and deploying AWS infrastructure and application services. This is a customer-facing role within a consultancy environment, emphasizing collaboration with various stakeholders. The contract is for an initial period of six months and is fully remote, classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the build and migration activities to separate an existing application and infrastructure estate into a new AWS environment.
- Deliver landing zone implementation, networking build activities, server migration, and application platform deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Project Managers, and customer technical stakeholders.
- Participate in live migration cutovers within production environments.
- Support planned out-of-hours migration activities.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable experience delivering AWS infrastructure solutions within a Professional Services or consultancy environment.
- Hands-on experience with AWS landing zone and multi-account environments.
- Strong working knowledge of AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) or similar migration tooling.
- Experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform).
- Ability to work collaboratively within architect-led delivery teams.
Salary (Rate): £500 daily
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior AWS Engineer - Up to £500 per day 6 month initial contract Fully Remote - UK Based Outside IR35
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to join our Professional Services delivery team on a fixed term basis to support the delivery of a major AWS migration and separation programme for an enterprise customer. This role will form part of a multi-disciplinary delivery team working alongside Solution Architects, Project Managers, and customer technical stakeholders to build, migrate, and deploy AWS infrastructure and application services as part of a structured separation of an existing hybrid estate into a new AWS Organisation. The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in delivering landing zone implementation, networking build activities, server migration, and application platform deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches. This is a customer-facing delivery role within a professional services consultancy environment, not an internal platform engineering position.
Key Responsibilities
- Working as a core member of the delivery team, you will be responsible for supporting the build and migration activities required to separate an existing application and infrastructure estate into a newly established AWS environment.
Required Experience
- Demonstrable experience delivering AWS infrastructure solutions within a Professional Services or consultancy environment
- Experience working directly with external customers to deliver AWS migration or transformation programmes
- Hands-on experience supporting enterprise AWS migration delivery
- Experience supporting structured migration waves within planned migration programmes
- Experience participating in live migration cutovers within production environments
- Willingness and ability to support planned out-of-hours migration activities
- Hands-on experience with AWS landing zone and multi-account environments
- Experience implementing AWS networking solutions across hybrid environments
- Strong working knowledge of AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) or similar migration tooling
- Experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform)
- Experience working as part of structured delivery teams aligned to SOW-driven engagements
Desirable Experience
- Experience supporting enterprise scale migration programmes
- Experience working with container platforms such as ECS
- Experience supporting DR enablement using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Experience integrating AWS environments with enterprise identity providers
- Familiarity with Palo Alto firewall deployments within AWS
Personal Attributes
- Comfortable operating within customer-facing delivery environments
- Able to work collaboratively within architect-led delivery teams
- Strong attention to detail when executing build and migration activities
- Able to support structured migration waves including planned out-of-hours work
- Pragmatic approach to delivery within fixed-scope engagements
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