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Contract Location: Cheltenham or Manchester (3-4 days per week on-site)

Rate: ~£600 p/day (Inside IR35)

Duration: Ongoing contract

We are recruiting for an international IT company looking for an experienced AWS Engineer with active SC Clearance to join a high-profile programme. This role is suited to someone who is hands-on, delivery-focused, and comfortable working in secure, complex environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver secure, scalable AWS solutions across a major transformation programme
Support design, build and optimisation activities within AWS
Ensure infrastructure and platform services are aligned to best practice
Troubleshoot, improve and maintain cloud environments in a fast-paced settingRequired Experience:

Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience
Solid understanding of cloud security, networking and automation
Terraform, CI/CD or modern DevOps tooling beneficial
If you're available and would like to learn more, please contact (url removed) / (phone number removed) for more information.

ECS Resource Group are an Equal Opportunity Employer, for more information please click the following link: (url removed) In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, if you require an alternative form of application please click the following link: Flexible Application Process - (url removed)/work/flexible-application-process

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