AWS Cloud Engineer

Rowden Technologies; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to contribute to mission-focused work in Defence and Security. The role requires around 5+ years of experience and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification. Predominantly a hybrid role, you will design cloud solutions, ensuring compliance and security. The ideal candidate will have strong practical experience with Terraform, CI/CD tooling, and AWS services.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years of experience in a similar role.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar experience.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD tooling, and managed container services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement mission-specific solutions in a Cloud-native environment.
• Build and maintain solutions using Terraform following IAC best practices.
• Ensure solutions meet security and compliance requirements.

Skills

Experience building and running solutions in an assured environment for Defence, Govt, or Public Sector

Experience working collaboratively in Teams doing Scrum or Kanban

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or comparable experience

Hands-on experience of services such as EC2, ECR, ECS/EKS, SSM

Experience with Terraform and CI/CD tooling

Proficient building and deploying versioned containers

Experienced Linux user/administrator

Job description

Overview

AWS Cloud Engineer

Rowden design and integrate advanced systems that sense, connect, and protect data in environments where fast, informed decision-making is vital. Our mission is to deliver mission advantage to those working to safeguard national security, public safety, and critical infrastructure.

About The Role

We are looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer with approximately 5+ years of experience to work on our exciting mission-focused work in Defence and Security. The right candidate will have a mindset focused on outcomes, not just deliverables - and be committed to enabling mission success for End Users. This role suits somebody who has completed AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or has similar experience. This role is hybrid, with a mixture of three days a week working from either home or our Bristol HQ, plus two days per week working on customer sites in the Gloucester/Worcester area.

Key responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Users and Stakeholders to design and implement mission-specific solutions in a Cloud-native environment.
• Build and maintain solutions using Terraform and following IAC best practices.
• Ensure solutions meet stakeholders' security and compliance requirements.

Essential skills and experience

• Experience building and running solutions in an assured environment for Defence, Govt, or Public Sector.
• Experience working collaboratively in Teams doing Scrum or Kanban.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or comparable experience (5y+)
• Hands-on experience of services such as EC2, ECR, ECS/EKS, SSM, and at least one managed database service (SQL/NoSQL/caching).
• Hands on experience with Terraform and CI/CD tooling (ideally GitHub Enterprise) and able to help the Team evolve better GitOps practices.
• Experience in multi-account environments, experience of AWS Organisations and AWS Control Tower highly desirable.
• Proficient building and deploying versioned containers in a managed container service.
• Experienced Linux user/administrator, able to write some Bash and/or Python.

About Rowden

We’re building the next UK-headquartered engineering powerhouse. At Rowden, we design and integrate advanced systems that sense, connect, and protect data in challenging environments where quick decisions are vital. Our solutions use intelligent automation to enhance speed and efficiency and are built to be reliable and straightforward for critical operations in remote or high-pressure settings.

What matters to us?

• Our focus is on the end user. We exist to deliver the best possible outcomes for the users of our systems.
• Pace matters. The problems we solve are urgent.
• Our diverse skills and backgrounds make us better. Our team prides itself on being inclusive and multidisciplinary.
• We are radically honest. Saying what we mean, even when it isn’t easy.
• We are pragmatists. We provide realistic, focused solutions that get to the point.
• We improve continuously. We are relentless in our drive to make things better.