AWS Contractor

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

Location:

UK / EMEA (Remote or Hybrid) Contract:

6 Months (Outside IR35) Rate:

£450

£600 per day 167 Solutions are recruiting on behalf of a leading client in the

technology and digital transformation sector , who are seeking an experienced

AWS Contractor

to join their engineering team. This role focuses on delivering

scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure

while supporting automation, DevOps, and migration projects. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimise AWS environments for business-critical platforms. Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain

AWS cloud infrastructure .

Lead and support

cloud migrations, deployments, and optimisation projects .

Automate provisioning and configuration using IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation).

Build and manage

CI/CD pipelines

for efficient and reliable deployments.

Monitor, secure, and scale AWS environments in line with best practices.

Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and networking issues.

Work closely with architects, developers, and security teams.

Skills & Experience

Proven experience as an

AWS Engineer / Cloud Contractor .

Strong hands-on expertise with key AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VPC).

Proficiency with

Infrastructure as Code

(Terraform, CloudFormation).

Experience with

CI/CD pipelines

(GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline).

Strong knowledge of

networking, security, and IAM

within AWS.

Experience with

containerisation

(Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS).

Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK).

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent) is desirable.

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