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…

Inside IR35 IT
Pay rate £700 – £750/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 3 September 2026

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£700 - £750 p/d Inside IR35

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 ClearedThe 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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