Platform AWS Engineer (SC Cleared)

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong Linux administration experience in RedHat environments
• Knowledge of RPMs, SELinux, filesystems, user/group management, and system administration
• Experience with Ansible automation
• Strong Git knowledge including GitHub, GitHub Actions CI, repositories, branching, merge requests, and code reviews
• Sound understanding of networking concepts including IP addressing, CIDRs, TCP/IP, and TLS certificates
• Experience supporting Java applications, JVMs, and process management
• Nginx administration, particularly as a reverse proxy
• Performance tuning and capacity management across CPU, memory, and storage
• Experience with OpenVPN and SSH client/server configurations
• Management of EC2 instances, Auto Scaling Groups, Load Balancers, and Target Groups
• Strong IAM experience including roles, policies, instance profiles, and permissions management
• Experience managing multi-account AWS environments and role assumption
• AWS Secrets Manager administration
• AWS Systems Manager experience
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or OpenTofu
• AWS networking including VPC Peering and routing
• Exposure to AWS Organisations and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• Ability to implement security controls across all layers of a technology stack
• Understanding of risk-based security approaches and appropriate security practices
• Experience collaborating with Security teams to meet project and compliance requirements
• Active SC Clearance mandatory

Responsibilities:

• We will maintain and optimise AWS infrastructure
• We will support Linux-based systems
• We will implement automation
• We will work closely with security and project stakeholders
• We will deliver resilient and secure platform services
• We will manage and support secure cloud-based platforms within a highly governed environment

Technologies:

• AWS
• Ansible
• Cloud
• EC2
• Git
• GitHub
• IAM
• Support
• Java
• Linux
• Nginx
• Security
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• Confluence
• DevOps
• ServiceNow
• SharePoint

More:

We are seeking an experienced Platform AWS Engineer to join a large-scale public sector programme. This is a hybrid role with occasional travel to London, offering a competitive day rate of £492 per day (Umbrella) and an opportunity to work within an interesting public sector transformation programme. We provide exposure to complex AWS cloud environments and a collaborative, technically focused team environment.

last updated 31 week of 2026