Skills

Python Incident Response CI/CD Monitoring AWS CloudFormation Research Architecture AWS AWS Cloud CI/CD Pipelines Terraform

Job Specifications

AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract) | AWS, Terraform & Python | Building Secure Research Platforms at Scale

Day Rate: £600–£800 per day
Contract Length: Initially 6–12 months
Location: London / Hybrid

The Role

In this role, you’ll design, build and operate the AWS infrastructure that underpins complex, high-impact cloud workloads used by engineering and research teams.

You’ll own the AWS landing zone and core platform services, creating secure, scalable foundations that enable teams to work efficiently and safely in the cloud. This is a hands-on contract role focused on delivery, automation and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on security, governance and developer experience.

You’ll work closely with engineers, platform teams and stakeholders to continuously evolve the cloud environment, ensuring it supports experimentation, scale and long-term stability.

What you'll do:

You’ll be a seasoned AWS engineer with a strong platform mindset. In this role, you will:

AWS multi-account landing zone: Design, build, and maintain a scalable, secure landing zone across multiple accounts.
IaC: (Terraform & CloudFormation): Implement IaC to automate provisioning and configuration of AWS resources.
Security, compliance & governance: Embed controls across the platform to ensure best practices are followed.
Automation & developer tooling: Build tools to simplify cloud adoption and improve the developer experience.
Monitoring & observability: Support monitoring, alerting, and incident response across the AWS environment.
Collaboration & optimisation: Work with internal teams to troubleshoot issues and optimise workloads.
AWS service updates: Track new AWS features and provide practical recommendations to stakeholders.

You’ll need strong experience operating AWS at scale, with a clear understanding of security boundaries and governance in complex environments.

What You’ll Work With:

AWS multi-account architecture
AWS security and governance services
Terraform infrastructure automation
AWS CloudFormation
Python scripting and tooling
CI/CD pipelines and automation
Monitoring and observability tooling

Why Join / Projects

You’ll be working on foundational cloud infrastructure that directly supports advanced research and engineering workloads. This contract offers the chance to own critical platform components, influence cloud strategy, and solve complex problems in a technically rigorous environment where quality and clarity matter.

It’s well suited to contractors who enjoy building robust platforms, care deeply about security and automation, and want to work on systems that genuinely matter.

AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract) | AWS, Terraform & Python | Building Secure Research Platforms at Scale

About the Company

We are Prism Digital, your DevOps and Cloud talent partner. Proud sponsors and co-organisers of the London DevOps meetup group. We are a niche consultancy with a tight focus on driving quality over quantity. We pride ourselves on our consultative approach, our extensive knowledge of the DevOps, Cloud and infrastructure sector and most importantly how important great talent is to help your company grow and succeed. We offer: • Expertise in Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Linux, Windows, CI/CD, Configuration Management, IaC, Cont... Know more