Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer | National Security

Location: London (hybrid)

Salary: Up to £72,000 + bonus & benefits

Type: Permanent

Clearance: Must hold or be eligible and willing to undergo UK security clearance

Build cloud solutions that support the UK’s national security mission.

Join a leading technology consultancy where you’ll combine hands-on AWS engineering with the opportunity to influence technical decisions, working in an autonomous DevOps team delivering mission-critical applications and services.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining secure, resilient AWS solutions.
• Automating infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK.
• Developing applications, services and automation using Python, TypeScript or another suitable language.
• Improving CI/CD pipelines and deploying containerised workloads.
• Shaping technical decisions across the full delivery lifecycle, from initial design through to production operation.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience in AWS cloud engineering or DevOps , with ownership of production environments.
• Broad knowledge of AWS services, including compute, storage, networking, IAM and serverless.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and version control.
• Practical coding skills alongside scripting and automation experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the confidence to explain technical decisions to colleagues and stakeholders.

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, observability or AWS cost optimisation would be valuable, alongside AWS certifications.

What’s in it for you?

Up to £72,000 , company bonus, private medical and dental cover, a competitive pension and 25 days’ holiday. You’ll also have a dedicated career manager, access to technical training and opportunities to deepen your expertise across cloud and software engineering.

Apply or message me for a confidential conversation.