AWS Infrastructure Engineer (Night Shift)

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer (Night Shift)

Full Remote | UK Only | UK Security Clearance Eligible

Night Shift | 10pm - 6amLooking to build your career in AWS Cloud and Infrastructure?

Whether you're an early-career Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer or Operations Engineer looking for the next step, this is an opportunity to join a major government programme where you'll gain hands-on experience supporting secure, large-scale cloud platforms used for mission-critical services.

You'll be joining an experienced engineering team who will support your development as you grow your technical skills across AWS, cloud infrastructure, automation and platform operations.

What you'll be doing

Supporting AWS cloud infrastructure and production platforms

Monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure issues

Working with Linux systems, containers and cloud services

Learning and developing Infrastructure as Code and automation skills

Collaborating with experienced engineers to improve platform reliability, performance and security

Helping to support highly available services used by public sector customers

We're looking for

You don't need to tick every box, but you'll ideally have experience with some of the following:

Commercial experience supporting AWS environments (EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, ECS, EKS or similar)

Linux administration or infrastructure support experience

An understanding of networking, cloud platforms or virtualisation

Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes or container technologies

Some knowledge of Terraform or Infrastructure as Code would be beneficial

A genuine interest in cloud engineering, automation and continuous learning

Important

This role operates on a permanent night shift (10pm-6am), so we're looking for someone who enjoys working these hours or sees the benefits they can offer.

Applicants must also be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance, meaning you'll need to meet UK government residency and eligibility requirements.

Why join?

Excellent opportunity to accelerate your AWS and Cloud career

Learn from experienced Cloud and Platform Engineers

Work on a major long-term government programme

Gain exposure to modern AWS technologies and enterprise-scale infrastructure

Join a global technology organisation investing heavily in cloud, AI and innovation

Clear opportunities for career progression as the programme continues to growIf you've already started your cloud journey and are looking for an opportunity to develop your AWS skills on a high-profile project, we'd love to hear from you.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy