SC-Cleared AWS Cloud Engineer - Hybrid Role

Sanderson Government & Defence; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer (AWS) to contribute to a large-scale cloud platform programme. The role involves hands-on AWS infrastructure work, collaboration with development teams and stakeholders, and delivery of secure cloud solutions.

The successful candidate will have active SC clearance, strong AWS engineering skills, and experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Docker in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Active SC Clearance that can be transferred prior to start.
• Strong AWS infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS ECS Fargate, AWS Networking, AWS WAF, Terraform, GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience delivering cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance AWS-based infrastructure solutions.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Support and improve CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions.
• Assist service teams with cloud platform adoption and best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, product teams and stakeholders to troubleshoot issues and deliver platform improvements.
• Help teams implement and manage Docker-based workloads within agreed standards and guardrails.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, understandable language for non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to networking, security and platform engineering initiatives.

Skills

Active SC Clearance

AWS infrastructure

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Explain complex concepts

Tools

AWS ECS Fargate

AWS Networking

AWS WAF

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Job description

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer (AWS) to contribute to a large-scale cloud platform programme. The role involves hands-on AWS infrastructure work, collaboration with development teams and stakeholders, and delivery of secure cloud solutions.

The successful candidate will have active SC clearance, strong AWS engineering skills, and experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Docker in enterprise environments.