Infrastructure Engineer: Hybrid Cloud, AWS & Terraform

Austin Elliot Consultancy; England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Group income protection

Hybrid working

Cheltenham office with parking

Training budget

Long-service benefits

Job summary

Austin Elliot Consultancy is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain secure infrastructure across AWS cloud and on‑premise environments, supporting Defence and Government projects.

You will own end-to-end infrastructure, from initial design and deployment through to operational support, troubleshooting and optimisation, in a hands-on, collaborative role with hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on infrastructure engineer with practical experience across AWS, on-premise and hybrid environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible and Linux/Windows administration.
• Able to take ownership from design through deployment and operations, with strong security and auditability.
• Higher level clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Designing, deploying and maintaining AWS infrastructure, including EC2, VPCs, IAM, storage and networking.
• Building and managing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Automating configuration and deployment using Ansible.
• Managing AWS and hybrid environments using AWS Systems Manager.
• Building and maintaining virtualised development and test environments.
• Supporting core infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, LDAP, PKI/CA and centralised logging.
• Configuring network infrastructure, including Cisco switching, VLANs and network segmentation.
• Monitoring infrastructure, troubleshooting issues and managing incidents.
• Managing patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation and lifecycle activities.
• Collaborating with customers and security teams to deliver secure, resilient solutions.
• Identifying opportunities to improve automation, security, reliability and efficiency.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Linux/Windows

Virtualisation

Networking

Git/GitLab

Infrastructure Monitoring

Security Hardening

Tools

Proxmox

TrueNAS

Wazuh

Cisco networking

AWS Systems Manager

GitLab CI/CD

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Austin Elliot Consultancy is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain secure infrastructure across AWS cloud and on‑premise environments, supporting Defence and Government projects.

You will own end-to-end infrastructure, from initial design and deployment through to operational support, troubleshooting and optimisation, in a hands-on, collaborative role with hybrid working arrangements.