Role Title: Cloud Engineer Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2026 Location: Knutsford, hybrid 2/3 days onsite per week Rate: up to £368 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications : Minimum 9 years of IT industry experience 5 years of experience working with containers, Kubernetes and related technologies on Cloud platform(s) - AWS preferably 3 years of experience working in setting up the cloud infrastructure using Cloud Formation Experience of DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Nexus, Git, Jira etc. Experience in working & configuring wide range of AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Elastic Load Balancers, EC2, MSK, RDS - Oracle preferred Experience on virtual server hosting (EC2), container management (Kubernetes, ECS and EKS) and Linux Operating System Network experience, aware of cloud network patterns such as VPC, network interconnect, subnets, peering, firewalls, etc Basic knowledge of Java based application, API & Microservices Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications: 5 years of scripting experience using PowerShell, Perl, Ruby, Node js or Python Proficient with Jira, Jenkins, Bitbucket/Gitlab and Git Workflows Exposure to working within a controlled environment such as banking and financial services Experience on Docker and at least one Docker Container orchestration - Amazon ECS/EKS, Kubernetes. Relevant AWS certification(s) All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!