Role Overview
Senior AWS Engineer - Up to £500 per day. 6 month initial contract. Fully Remote - UK Based. Outside IR35.
We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to join our Professional Services delivery team on a fixed term basis to support the delivery of a major AWS migration and separation programme for an enterprise customer.
This role will form part of a multi-disciplinary delivery team working alongside Solution Architects, Project Managers, and customer technical stakeholders to build, migrate, and deploy AWS infrastructure and application services as part of a structured separation of an existing hybrid estate into a new AWS Organisation.
The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in delivering landing zone implementation, networking build activities, server migration, and application platform deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches.
This is a customer-facing delivery role within a professional services consultancy environment, not an internal platform engineering position.
Key Responsibilities
- Working as a core member of the delivery team, support the build and migration activities required to separate an existing application and infrastructure estate into a newly established AWS environment.
Required Experience
- Demonstrable experience delivering AWS infrastructure solutions within a Professional Services or consultancy environment
- Experience working directly with external customers to deliver AWS migration or transformation programmes
- Hands-on experience supporting enterprise AWS migration delivery
- Experience supporting structured migration waves within planned migration programmes
- Experience participating in live migration cutovers within production environments
- Willingness and ability to support planned out-of-hours migration activities
- Hands-on experience with AWS landing zone and multi-account environments
- Experience implementing AWS networking solutions across hybrid environments
- Strong working knowledge of AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) or similar migration tooling
- Experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform)
- Experience working as part of structured delivery teams aligned to SOW-driven engagements
Desirable Experience
- Experience supporting enterprise scale migration programmes
- Experience working with container platforms such as ECS
- Experience supporting DR enablement using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Experience integrating AWS environments with enterprise identity providers
- Familiarity with Palo Alto firewall deployments within AWS
Personal Attributes
- Comfortable operating within customer-facing delivery environments
- Able to work collaboratively within architect-led delivery teams
- Strong attention to detail when executing build and migration activities
- Able to support structured migration waves including planned out-of-hours work
- Pragmatic approach to delivery within fixed-scope engagements
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