Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer (SC or DV Cleared)

Location: Hybrid UK
Security Clearance: Active SC or DV Clearance required 
Contract: Initial 6 months with extension potential
Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)

Overview

We are supporting a major national technology programme seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to join a modern engineering team delivering cloud-native applications, platform services and automation capability within a secure environment.

This role sits within a highly collaborative engineering function working alongside Software Engineers, Platform Engineers and Automation Specialists. The successful candidate will help improve software delivery velocity, deployment automation, platform reliability and engineering quality across AWS-hosted services and cloud-native platforms.

This is not a traditional testing role. We are looking for an engineer with strong AWS, DevOps and platform engineering capability who understands modern automation, release engineering and cloud-native delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support containerised workloads and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and reliability.
• Work closely with software engineering teams to improve delivery workflows and release processes.
• Implement automation solutions that improve platform resilience, operational efficiency and deployment quality.
• Support cloud-native application delivery across microservices and distributed systems architectures.
• Contribute to DevOps best practice, platform engineering standards and automation strategies.
• Assist with cloud integration, deployment validation and release assurance activities.

Essential Skills & Experience

AWS Cloud Engineering

• Strong hands-on AWS experience across modern cloud-native environments.
• Experience working with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, SNS and SQS.
• AWS certification strongly preferred (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps or Developer).

Infrastructure as Code

• Strong Terraform experience.
• Experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code.
• Exposure to CloudFormation or AWS CDK beneficial.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar tooling.
• Strong understanding of deployment automation and release engineering practices.

Containers & Platform Engineering

• Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred).
• Docker and containerised application delivery.
• Experience supporting cloud-native platforms and microservices environments.

Development & Automation

• Python experience preferred.
• Experience building automation tooling and scripts.
• Understanding of REST APIs, integration patterns and distributed systems.

Desirable Experience

• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification.
• Experience working within Government, Defence, Law Enforcement or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience supporting platform engineering or SRE functions.
• Experience integrating automated validation and quality controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to modern AI, machine learning or cloud-hosted AI services.

Ideal Backgrounds

We would particularly like to hear from candidates currently working as:

• AWS DevOps Engineer
• Cloud Platform Engineer
• Platform Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• AWS Cloud Engineer
• DevOps Platform Engineer
• Kubernetes Engineer
• Cloud Automation Engineer

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will help drive cloud-native engineering excellence, improving deployment automation, platform reliability and software delivery performance across a modern AWS environment. They will be comfortable operating across platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure and automation disciplines, working closely with software engineering teams to accelerate delivery and improve operational resilience.

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