AWS Cloud Engineer - Central Government

Access Computer Consulting
Croydon, London, United Kingdom
Today
£550 – £650 pd

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£550 – £650 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
1 May 2026 (Today)
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I am recruiting for an AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a hybrid basis - 2-3 days in Croydon, remaining time remote.

The role falls inside IR35 so you will be required to work through an umbrella company for the duration of the contract.

Candidates must have worked within central government in the last 12 months.

You must have strong experience of AWS.

You will also have hands on experience of DevOps & CI/CD and expertise with Terraform, Bash and Python Scripting is essential.

You must have a solid understanding of Git usage and workflows.

Strong EC2/ ALB/ ASG skills and EKS.

Experience of CloudWatch/ Grafana is required for this role.

Gitlab CI admin (self-hosted ideally) & Artifactory admin (self-hosted ideally) is also preferred.

You will be responsible for supporting the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices and for underpinning good development processes including managing tools and testing environments, central code control, maintaining development standards and writing software that automates systems.

Please apply ASAP if this is of interest

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