AWS Cloud Engineer (Contractor) – Migration & Automation

Lorien; Greater London; On-site; GBP 92,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer Contractor to design, migrate, and manage cloud solutions on AWS. You will work with architects, developers, and DevOps to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure, implementing IaC and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring security and compliance.

Responsibilities include deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimisation, collaborating across teams, and producing documentation for operations and support.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and supporting AWS-based solutions.
• Experience with large-scale cloud migration programmes.
• Strong understanding of cloud security and governance.
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Hands-on Linux administration and scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Support cloud migration and modernisation initiatives with minimal disruption.
• Implement IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Monitor environments, identify performance and security issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps, architects, and stakeholders to align with needs.
• Optimise performance, resilience, and cost management.
• Produce technical docs and operational procedures.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Security & Compliance

Monitoring

SRE Practices

Stakeholder Management

Agile delivery

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

Lorien seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer Contractor to design, migrate, and manage cloud solutions on AWS. You will work with architects, developers, and DevOps to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure, implementing IaC and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring security and compliance.

Responsibilities include deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimisation, collaborating across teams, and producing documentation for operations and support.