Senior Cloud Engineer

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:

• Design, build, and monitor core AWS infrastructure
• Maintain IaC codebases (Terraform)
• Drive continuous improvement in security, resilience, and cost
• Mentor service teams on cloud best practices
• Support service management processes (change, incident, DR)

Ideal Experience:

• 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering
• Strong knowledge of network, backup, observability, and security
• Experience with ISO27001, NIST, or Cyber Essentials
• Proficiency in Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and AWS services (e.g. Lambda, EKS, CloudFront, GuardDuty)

Benefits:

• 27 days annual leave + wellbeing days
• Pension, private medical, life cover
• Study/volunteer/reserve forces leave
• 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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