AWS Cloud Engineer: Serverless, CI/CD & Secure APIs

Cognizant; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer in Nottingham to design, build, and operate cloud-native applications on AWS. You will own end-to-end delivery from design through deployment and monitoring, with a focus on serverless architectures, automation, and clean code.

You will collaborate with product, platform, and DevOps teams, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and ensure robust security and observability across environments. Nottingham-based with 3 days in the office weekly.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS cloud engineer with strong IaC experience.
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native apps on AWS.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js for backend services.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Own the full development lifecycle from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Build and maintain RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Manage DynamoDB data models and S3 data pipelines for scalable storage.
• Contribute to platform reliability with monitoring and incident response.

Skills

AWS

Automation

Agile teamwork

Production-grade software

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer in Nottingham to design, build, and operate cloud-native applications on AWS. You will own end-to-end delivery from design through deployment and monitoring, with a focus on serverless architectures, automation, and clean code.

You will collaborate with product, platform, and DevOps teams, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and ensure robust security and observability across environments. Nottingham-based with 3 days in the office weekly.