AWS Engineer - MHCLG - G7

Onyx-Conseil; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an AWS Engineer to support the design, maintenance, and improvement of cloud services. The ideal candidate will ensure secure and scalable infrastructure, collaborate on service deployments, and optimize operational performance. Strong experience with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation is required for this critical role.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and maintaining AWS cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security and scalability practices.
• Proficiency in cloud-native service deployment.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and maintenance of AWS Organisation.
• Work on migrations and deploy new capabilities.
• Monitor cost optimization and resilience of services.

Skills

Collaboration with delivery teams

Infrastructure as code

Cloud optimization

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

As an AWS Engineer, you’ll:

• Be responsible for supporting the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the department’s AWS Organisation and shared services
• Work closely with architecture, security, and delivery teams to ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, and aligned with departmental goals
• Be critical in supporting the migration of services, deploying new cloud-native capabilities, and ensuring operational excellence across environments
• Maintain and evolve the department’s AWS Organisation, including SCPs, account structure, and billing controls
• Collaborate with delivery teams to design, review, and deploy new services into AWS, ensuring alignment with architectural and security standards
• Support on updating and modernising key infrastructure services, including patching, automation, and performance tuning
• Support to ensure infrastructure as code (IaC) practices are followed using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Support in the monitoring and improved cost optimisation, resilience, and operational performance of cloud services
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to the cloud strategy, standards, and best practices across the department