AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

Spectrum IT Recruitment
Birmingham, United Kingdom
5 days ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
26 Jun 2026 (5 days ago)

Benefits

Security clearance sponsorship Long-term government project involvement Professional growth in cloud and security domains

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer - Large Government Project

  • Full-Time. UK only
  • Night shift. 10pm to 6am
  • Applicants must be eligible for Security Clearance

Looking for an opportunity to make a real impact on a major government programme?

We're recruiting an experienced AWS Cloud Operations Engineer to join a large-scale project focused on onboarding a major public sector client and delivering highly secure customer contact solutions. This is a key role within a growing engineering team, helping to build, support and optimise cloud platforms that underpin critical services.

You'll work across AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux environments, container platforms and databases, helping to ensure secure, scalable and highly available systems.

What we're looking for:

  • Strong AWS cloud experience (EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC)
  • Linux systems administration expertise
  • Containerisation and Kubernetes experience
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code knowledge
  • Database administration experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora or similar)
  • A passion for reliability, security and continuous improvement

Why apply?

  • Join a major long-term government project
  • Work on secure, mission-critical technology
  • Excellent opportunity to influence architecture and operational excellence
  • Be part of a global technology organisation investing heavily in growth and innovation

If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and want to play a key role in a high-profile programme, we'd love to hear from you.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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