Cloud Engineer at Lorien, Edinburgh, £500-£550 per day

AWS Cloud Engineer – £500 - £550 per day Outside IR35 – 12 months - Edinburgh (Hybrid)

One of Lorien’s key public sector clients is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join their team on an initial 12 month contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with modular, reusable best practices
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) and Git-based workflows
• Optimising cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience
• Managing monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and related tooling
• Implementing automated patching and configuration management using AWS Systems Manager
• Supporting database workloads in AWS, including RDS and associated backup and recovery processes
• Working closely with infrastructure and security teams to ensure best practices across cloud environments

Key Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch)
• Proven experience building and managing infrastructure using Terraform (modular IaC approach)
• Experience with AWS-native CI/CD tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) or equivalent (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Strong understanding of Linux (RHEL) and/or Windows environments in AWS
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager (patching, automation, inventory)
• Knowledge of AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, networking controls)
• Experience working within multi-account AWS environments and shared services models
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in cloud environments
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in engineering teams

Desirable Skills:

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps)
• Experience working in public sector or regulated environments
• Understanding of FinOps, tagging strategies, and cost control
• Exposure to containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern engineering practices