Lead AWS Cloud Engineer - Greenfield, Hybrid (1 day/wk)

Harnham; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Salary review

Leadership opportunity

Career progression

Job summary

Harnham in Oxford is seeking an AWS Engineer to become the AWS SME within a growing cloud consultancy. You will design, build and support scalable AWS infrastructure and help shape a greenfield AWS environment.

Join a small engineering team with autonomy and technical ownership, collaborating across cloud, data and AI initiatives while mentoring junior engineers and driving governance and best practices. The role offers hybrid work and opportunities to influence architecture and multi-cloud

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience with Terraform and IaC principles.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security and automation.
• Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, AWS CLI or similar.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience introducing, scaling or modernising cloud platforms.
• Azure exposure or wider multi-cloud experience desirable.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Security Specialty advantageous.
• Consultancy experience or exposure to AI/LLM infrastructure beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and support scalable, secure and resilient AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Establish AWS best practices, governance frameworks and engineering standards.
• Build AWS Landing Zones and help shape a greenfield AWS capability.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and drive automation initiatives.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve cloud delivery and operational efficiency.
• Partner closely with Azure engineers to support a collaborative multi-cloud environment.
• Act as the AWS Subject Matter Expert, providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers.
• Engage with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into cloud solutions.

Skills

AWS engineering

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud networking

Automation

Python

PowerShell

AWS CLI

Communication

Multi-cloud

AWS certifications

AI/LLM infra

Tools

Terraform

AWS CLI

Job description

Harnham in Oxford is seeking an AWS Engineer to become the AWS SME within a growing cloud consultancy. You will design, build and support scalable AWS infrastructure and help shape a greenfield AWS environment.

Join a small engineering team with autonomy and technical ownership, collaborating across cloud, data and AI initiatives while mentoring junior engineers and driving governance and best practices. The role offers hybrid work and opportunities to influence architecture and multi-cloud