Spectrum IT Recruitment
AWS Cloud Operations Engineer (Night Shift)
Job Description
Salary: £58,000 - 67,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong AWS cloud experience, including EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, IAM and VPC
- Linux systems administration expertise
- Containerisation and Kubernetes experience
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code knowledge
- Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora or similar
- A passion for reliability, security and continuous improvement
- Applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance
- Join a large-scale project focused on onboarding a major public sector client and delivering highly secure customer contact solutions
- Build, support and optimise cloud platforms that underpin critical services
- Work across AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux environments, container platforms and databases
- Help ensure secure, scalable and highly available systems
- Influence architecture and operational excellence within the engineering team
- AWS
- Cloud
- EC2
- IAM
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Security
- Terraform
- DevOps
More:
We are recruiting an experienced AWS Cloud Operations Engineer for a night shift role working 10pm to 6am in a fully remote capacity. This is a key position on a large government project supporting the onboarding of a major public sector client and the delivery of secure customer contact solutions. You will join a growing engineering team within a global technology organisation that is investing heavily in growth and innovation, and you will have the opportunity to make a real impact on a high-profile, mission-critical programme.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Spectrum IT Recruitment
Manchester
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£62,500
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 4% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks