AWS Engineer

AWS Engineer

Start: ASAP
Duration: initial 5-months (extensions likely)
Location: Central London (hybrid 2 days per week on site ideal)
Pay: INSIDE IR35, paying up to £510 per day

We're seeking a skilled AWS Cloud Engineer to join a high-impact project delivering robust, service-oriented architecture for a major financial services client.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design and build resilient, service-oriented architecture using AWS primitives
- Develop RESTful APIs with AWS API Gateway and Lambda
- Implement and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform
- Optimise AWS services including S3, IAM, Athena, Glue, Lambda, and API Gateway
- Support integration above metadata repositories for One Bank Data Quality services
- Contribute to serverless application development using AWS Lambda
- Maintain secure cloud environments using Secrets Manager, IAM, and CloudTrail
- Collaborate on the deployment and orchestration of AWS-native services
- Automate infrastructure delivery pipelines
- Apply best practices in AWS infrastructure design and management

Key Skills & Experience:
- 8+ years' experience in software development
- Proven expertise in AWS cloud engineering and serverless architecture
- Strong Terraform experience for AWS infrastructure automation
- Deep knowledge of core AWS services: S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, Athena, CloudTrail, Aurora/RDS, SQS
- Experience with Glue Crawlers, EUP, and Secrets Manager
- Familiarity with Spark and Python for data engineering (desirable)
- Experience with SageMaker Unified Studio (a plus)