Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS | Manchester | Hybrid
A leading defence intelligence organisation is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to manage and enhance its secure, multi-account AWS environment. This hands-on role sits within a central Platform Team and involves collaboration across service teams to ensure cloud standards, security, and operational resilience.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Design, build, and monitor core AWS infrastructure
2. Maintain IaC codebases (Terraform)
3. Drive continuous improvement in security, resilience, and cost
4. Mentor service teams on cloud best practices
5. Support service management processes (change, incident, DR)
Ideal Experience:
6. 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering
7. Strong knowledge of network, backup, observability, and security
8. Experience with ISO27001, NIST, or Cyber Essentials
9. Proficiency in Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
10. Familiarity with serverless architectures and AWS services (e.g. Lambda, EKS, CloudFront, GuardDuty)
Benefits:
11. 27 days annual leave + wellbeing days
12. Pension, private medical, life cover
13. Study/volunteer/reserve forces leave
14. Hybrid working (min. 40% office presence)
This is a great opportunity to work on meaningful projects in a collaborative, agile environment with cutting-edge technologies.
If you’re interested then please do apply below!
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