Infrastructure Engineer - Knutsford

Experis; Knutsford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer in Knutsford on a 2-month contract with a hybrid work setup (60% office, 40% remote). You will design, implement, and manage AWS-based cloud infrastructure for the Vector platform, using IaC and cloud-native technologies to deliver secure and scalable services.

Collaboration with security, devops, and platform teams is essential, with a strong emphasis on automation and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure within AWS.
• Strong understanding of IaC concepts and tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, and configuration management.
• Knowledge of AWS security services, IAM, networking, security groups, authentication, and access management best practices.
• Experience supporting containerised and cloud-native environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, system administration, monitoring, and operational support principles.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
• Experience supporting platform engineering or enterprise-scale cloud environments.
• Contractor must be eligible for BPSS.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage infrastructure for the Vector platform in AWS, including environments, services, networking, security policies, user authentication, security groups, IAM roles, profiles, and permissions.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions that support business and technical requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and automate infrastructure deployment scripts and templates to enable efficient provisioning, configuration, and recreation of environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using industry-standard tools to ensure consistency, repeatability, and governance across environments.
• Ensure infrastructure security, scalability, performance, and operational stability through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and optimisation activities.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to support application deployment pipelines and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Manage cloud resources and services, ensuring compliance with organisational security standards and best practices.
• Monitor platform health, system performance, and resource utilisation, identifying opportunities for improvement and cost optimisation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related incidents, vulnerabilities, and service disruptions in a timely manner.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity requirements through robust infrastructure design and testing.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, procedures, and operational runbooks to support knowledge sharing and operational excellence.
• Contribute to infrastructure roadmaps and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring the platform remains aligned with evolving business and technology needs.

Skills

IaC concepts

Scripting

Networking

Security practices

CI/CD & DevOps

Analytical problem solving

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Observability

Cloud platform engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure within Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, and configuration management.
• Knowledge of AWS security services, IAM, networking, security groups, authentication, and access management best practices.
• Experience supporting containerised and cloud-native environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, system administration, monitoring, and operational support principles.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
• Experience supporting platform engineering or enterprise-scale cloud environments.
• Contractor must be eligible for BPSS.

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage infrastructure for the Vector platform in AWS, including environments, services, networking, security policies, user authentication, security groups, IAM roles, profiles, and permissions.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions that support business and technical requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and automate infrastructure deployment scripts and templates to enable efficient provisioning, configuration, and recreation of environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using industry-standard tools to ensure consistency, repeatability, and governance across environments.
• Ensure infrastructure security, scalability, performance, and operational stability through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and optimisation activities.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to support application deployment pipelines and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Manage cloud resources and services, ensuring compliance with organisational security standards and best practices.
• Monitor platform health, system performance, and resource utilisation, identifying opportunities for improvement and cost optimisation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related incidents, vulnerabilities, and service disruptions in a timely manner.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity requirements through robust infrastructure design and testing.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, procedures, and operational runbooks to support knowledge sharing and operational excellence.
• Contribute to infrastructure roadmaps and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring the platform remains aligned with evolving business and technology needs.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• IAM
• Support
• Security
• Terraform
• Web

More:

We are hiring an Infrastructure Engineer in Knutsford on a 2-month contract with a work setup of 60% office and 40% remote. We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive engineer to support the Vector platform in AWS, using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native technologies to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and operationally efficient services. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with development, security, and platform teams, with a strong focus on automation, continuous improvement, and platform stability. The contractor must be eligible for BPSS. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

last updated 38 week of 2026