AWS Cloud Engineer (AI Ecosystem)

Cognizant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer to own hands-on cloud design, deployment, and BAU support. You will work across compute, networking, storage, and analytics with services including Fargate, Bedrock, Redshift, Neptune, and VPC.

Strong migration experience and security awareness are essential. Responsibilities include migrating infrastructure from CloudFormation to Terraform, CHEF to Ansible, and Jenkins to GitHub Actions, plus ongoing production

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of core AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Experience with Terraform, CHEF, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience migrating infrastructure from CloudFormation to Terraform.
• Experience with post go-live BAU operations and monitoring.
• Excellent English communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Implement end-to-end AWS solutions across compute, networking, storage, and analytics.
• Migration of existing AWS infra from CloudFormation templates to Terraform.
• Migration of CHEF cookbooks to Ansible.
• Migration of Jenkins jobs to GitHub actions.
• Post go‑live production BAU Ops role.
• Ensure robust operational standards across logging, security, monitoring, IAM governance, and distributed cloud reliability.

Skills

AWS core services

Distributed systems

English communication

Tools

CHEF

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Bedrock

Fargate

Redshift

Neptune

VPC Networking

CloudWatch

Jira

DataDog

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with deep hands‑on experience across AWS cloud services and BAU Ops role. This role requires hands‑on Cloud Engineering expertise, Networking, AWS cloud migration experience, good communication skills, and product maintenance experience for post go-live operational support.

Should be eligible for Security Check clearance

Responsibilities

• Implement end‑to‑end AWS solutions across compute, networking, storage, and analytics, leveraging services such as Fargate, Bedrock, Redshift, ALBs, VPC networking, Neptune DB, and regional AWS deployments.


• Migration of existing AWS infra from Cloud Formation templates to Terraform.


• Migration of CHEF cookbooks to Ansible


• Migration of Jenkins jobs to GitHub actions.


• Post go‑live production BAU Ops role.


• Ensure robust operational standards across logging, security, monitoring, IAM governance, and distributed cloud reliability..

Required Skills

• Good architectural understanding of core AWS services, cloud networking, and distributed system design.


• Proven hands‑on experience in AWS, CHEF, API development, Ansible, GitHub actions and runners, and Terraform.

Essential skills

• Strong experience with AWS data and AI ecosystem: Bedrock, Fargate, EFS, Redshift, Neptune, ALBs, VPC networking, CloudWatch, IAM, and regional deployment strategies including software’s such as CHEF, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub.


• Good understanding of cloud security, scalability patterns, and cost‑aware solution design.


• Confident communicator with excellent command of English, capable of influencing and leading client conversations.


• Working experience of ServiceNow, Jira, DataDog (or any other platform monitoring tool)

Good to have

• Experience with vector databases, graph databases (Neptune), or graph exploration tools.


• Proven hands‑on experience in Python, API development, and automation.


• Hands‑on background with LLM integrations, GenAI solution architecture, and AI pipeline orchestration.


• Familiarity with orchestration tools, serverless design patterns, or container‑native workflows.


• Exposure to modern AI frameworks, LangGraph/LangChain concepts, and prompt engineering.


• Passionate about cloud excellence, GenAI innovation, and delivering high‑impact solutions for enterprise clients.