SC Cleared Lead AWS Engineer

Hays are now looking for an SC Cleared Lead AWS Engineer to help design, build and support cloud infrastructure and automation within a Cloud Centre of Excellence.

• £700 - £750 p/d Inside IR35
• Remote
• 6 month+ contract
• Must be currently SC Cleared

The role requires strong hands-on experience across AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, networking and platform operations in a complex enterprise environment.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and managing cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Automating configuration management and deployments with Ansible.
• Building and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Managing source control and deployment workflows in GitLab and/or GitHub.
• Deploying and supporting AWS services including ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, ELB and ACM.
• Managing multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations.
• Designing and supporting AWS networking including Transit Gateway, VPC peering, routing and connectivity.
• Implementing and maintaining AWS WAF policies and rules.
• Supporting incident, request and change management processes through ServiceNow.
• Monitoring platform and application performance using LogicMonitor or similar observability tools.
• Troubleshooting production issues and driving continuous platform improvements.

What we're looking for

• Current SC Clearance
• Strong experience with Terraform and ideally Terragrunt.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience building and managing Jenkins pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of GitLab and/or GitHub.
• Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, ELB and ACM.
• Experience managing AWS Organizations in multi-account environments.
• Strong AWS networking experience including Transit Gateway, VPC design, routing and connectivity.
• Experience with AWS WAF.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow.
• Experience with LogicMonitor, Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic or similar monitoring platforms.

Desirable

• Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments with formal change management.
• Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Experience with Kubernetes or EKS.

If you hold current SC Clearance and are looking for a new role, please apply now or send a copy of your CV to

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