SC Platform AWS Engineer CGEMJP

Role Title: Platform AWS Engineer

Duration: contract to run until 31/10/2026

Location: London. Hybrid working with occasional travel

Rate: up to £552 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Clearance required: Active SC Clearance. UK National

Required Skills

• Linux (Redhat, RPMs, SELinux, filesystems, users/groups, systems management)
• Ansible
• Git (Github, Actions CI, repositories, branches, merge requests/code reviews, etc)
• General networking, IP addressing, CIDRs, TCP/IP, TLS certificates, etc.
• Running and working with Java applications, JVMs, processes etc.
• Nginx (primarily as a proxy)
• Performance management (CPU/disk/memory sizing, etc)
• Knowledge of OpenVPN, SSH and of client/server configuration.

AWS (Admin)

• EC2 instances, ASGs, Load Balancers, Target Groups
• IAM roles, policies, Instance Profiles, permissions etc.
• Mutli-account operations (assuming roles, working with multiple accounts)
• Secrets Manager
• Systems Manager
• Terraform/OpenTofu
• Networking VPC Peering, Routing
• Exposure to AWS Organisations and Service Control Policies

Security

• Able to implement security at every layer of a system stack, understanding what is likely to be an "acceptable level of security", depending on the situation
• Able to work with security specialists to achieve the aims and requirements of the project

Optional Skills

• Architecting systems to be low-overhead, low complexity and minimum tech-debt
• ServiceNow (self-hosted)
• Working in secure, governance/assurance-lead organisations
• Microsoft technologies such as SSO and Sharepoint
• Some level of "tech support" type skills
• AWS Command line (awscli) and/or Boto3
• Collaborative writing and reviews of documentation (GFLM and Confluence)

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!