[Hiring] Senior AWS Engineer @Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to join our Professional Services delivery team on a permanent basis. This is a hands-on, customer-facing delivery role within a consultancy environment - not an internal platform engineering position.

• Design and build secure, well-architected AWS environments.
• Lead the migration of customer workloads into AWS.
• Deliver Landing Zone deployments, enterprise migration and estate-separation programmes.
• Contribute to pre-sales scoping and effort estimation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build AWS Landing Zones and multi-account environments using Control Tower and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform / CDK).
• Lead and deliver enterprise migration and estate-separation programmes - migrating servers and workloads into AWS using AWS MGN and related tooling, across structured migration waves.
• Migrate databases as part of infrastructure migrations to AWS - for example, moving on-premises MS SQL Server to Amazon RDS - using appropriate migration tooling and cutover approaches.
• Design and implement AWS networking for migrations - Transit Gateway, VPN, hybrid connectivity - and deploy application platforms into the target environment.
• Support live migration waves and cutovers in production, including planned out-of-hours activity where required.
• Contribute to Well-Architected Reviews, security hardening, DR enablement and cost optimisation across customer estates.
• Work directly with customer technical stakeholders as a trusted, credible engineer in a consultancy setting.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to translate designs into buildable solutions, and with Project Managers to deliver within SOW scope, timeline and budget.
• Participate in pre-sales activities: solution scoping, effort estimation and input into Statements of Work and proposals.
• Produce clear technical documentation - architecture diagrams, build guides, runbooks and handover material.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal knowledge sharing and capability building.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable hands-on AWS engineering experience delivered within a Professional Services, consultancy or Managed Services environment.
• Strong core AWS: compute, networking, storage, security and identity (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudWatch and related services).
• Proven experience delivering AWS migration programmes for external customers, including migrating servers and workloads into AWS.
• Experience migrating databases as part of an infrastructure migration to AWS (e.g. on-premises MS SQL Server to Amazon RDS).
• Proven experience building and provisioning infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform).
• Experience designing and implementing AWS Landing Zones and multi-account governance.
• Experience with architecture design work and the ability to estimate effort for consultancy engagements.
• Confident working alongside Project Managers and Solution Architects within structured, SOW-driven delivery teams.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable in customer-facing delivery environments.
• Based in the UK with the right to work; able to travel to customer sites and Cloud Bridge offices as needed.

Desirable Experience

• Experience using AI tools to support and accelerate delivery work (e.g. Kiro, Claude Code, Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot).
• Exposure to delivering AI / data solutions for customers (e.g. GenAI / Amazon Bedrock use cases, data platforms and analytics).
• Container platform experience (ECS, EKS) and CI/CD pipeline delivery.
• DR enablement using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery; enterprise identity integration.
• Familiarity with security vendors (Palo Alto, Fortinet, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne).
• Experience with AWS partner funding programmes (e.g. MAP, Well-Architected).
• AWS certifications - Solutions Architect Associate / Professional, or equivalent.

Personal Attributes

• Pragmatic, delivery-focused and comfortable operating within fixed-scope engagements.
• Strong attention to detail when executing build and migration activities.
• Collaborative team player who works well within architect-led delivery teams.
• Consultative mindset - able to build customer trust and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Curious and efficiency-minded - continually looks for smarter, faster ways to deliver, including through AI-assisted tooling.