Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / Architect to lead a critical cloud hardening and resilience project.

You’ll take an existing AWS environment and transform it into a secure, highly available, production-grade platform — implementing best-in-class backup, failover, disaster recovery, and security controls.

This is a hands-on delivery role with architectural ownership.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and implement backup & disaster recovery strategy (RTO/RPO defined)
• Build multi-AZ, highly available architectures with automated failover
• Implement AWS Network Firewall & WAF for full perimeter security
• Harden environments with least privilege IAM, MFA, and access controls
• Set up CloudWatch, CloudTrail & VPC Flow Logs for monitoring and audit
• Deliver Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / scripts)
• Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and DR procedures
• Execute testing & validation (failover, backup restore, DR simulation)

Key Requirements

We’re targeting experienced contractors who can hit the ground running:

Core Skills

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (5+ years)
• Proven experience with:
• High availability & failover design
• Backup, replication & disaster recovery
• AWS networking & security architecture
• Deep understanding of:
• IAM (RBAC, least privilege, MFA)
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail, logging & monitoring
• Experience implementing:
• AWS WAF & Network Firewall (or similar)
• Secure VPC design (segmentation, NACLs, security groups)

Technical Tools

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation preferred)
• AWS services: EC2, RDS/SQL, EBS, ELB, VPC

Bonus

• Experience in security-focused or regulated environments
• Strong documentation & stakeholder communication skills

By the end of the contract, you will have delivered:

• A fully hardened AWS environment
• Tested and validated failover & DR processes
• Complete monitoring, alerting, and security controls
• Clear documentation and runbooks for ongoing operations

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

19-05-2026

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English