AWS Engineer

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking an experienced AWS Engineer with a strong software engineering background for a 6-month contract in London. The role focuses on building and automating AWS solutions during a major cloud migration and disaster recovery programme, with production-grade code and infrastructure as code driving delivery.

The position is flexible hybrid (London) and requires hands-on AWS expertise, CI/CD capabilities, and experience with Terraform and AWS services to support secure, scalable cloud

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong software development background (C#, Python, Node.js or similar).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Cloud migration and disaster recovery experience.
• Familiar with AWS services (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, security).

Responsibilities

• Build and automate AWS solutions through code.
• Develop production-quality code, scripts and automation.
• Support cloud migration and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Work with ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront and AWS security services.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Participate in code reviews and apply SDLC best practices.
• Troubleshoot AWS infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Demonstrate strong software engineering practices and maintainable code.

Skills

AWS

Software engineering

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Production coding

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

Contract Opportunity | AWS Engineer | Outside IR35

Flexible hybrid (London)

Initial 6-month contract

The Role

A leading technology business is looking for AWS Engineers with a strong software engineering background to support a major cloud migration and disaster recovery programme covering approximately 60 critical services.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and automating AWS solutions through code.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and automate solutions within AWS.
• Develop production-quality code, scripts and automation.
• Support cloud migration and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Work with ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront and AWS security services.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Participate in code reviews and apply clean code, testing and SDLC best practices.
• Troubleshoot AWS infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Strong software engineering / development background.
• Production coding experience in C#, Python, Node.js or similar.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience with AWS automation and infrastructure built through code.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform.
• CI/CD experience.
• Strong understanding of testing, clean code, code reviews and maintainability.
• Cloud migration / modernisation experience.
• Disaster recovery / resilience.
• AWS serverless or containerised environments.
• AI-assisted development tools.

Important

This is not a traditional DevOps/SRE or infrastructure administration role. The focus is on engineers who can write, review and troubleshoot production code, alongside strong AWS expertise.