Senior AWS Engineer - Up to £80k DOE

Senior AWS Engineer

Salary: Up to £80k DOE

Location: London, Marlow, Manchester, Edinburgh or Fully Remote

About Cloud Bridg

eCloud Bridge is one of the fastest-growing AWS Premier Partners in the UK & EMEA, named AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year (EMEA 2023, UK&I 2022). We specialise in cloud consultancy, migration, managed services, cloud governance, FinOps and AI/ML, helping organisations unlock the full value of AWS. We are expanding globally with offices across the UK, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Dubai and the Philippines

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Role Overvi

ewWe 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 positio

n.Working as a core member of multi-disciplinary delivery teams alongside Solution Architects and Project Managers, you will design and build secure, well-architected AWS environments and lead the migration of customer workloads into AWS. Migration is central to this role: you will deliver Landing Zone deployments, enterprise migration and estate-separation programmes, and the associated networking, server and database migration activity that underpins them. You will also contribute to pre-sales scoping and effort estimation, drawing on your delivery experience to help shape realistic, deliverable Statements of Wor

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Key Responsibilit

• iesDesign and build AWS Landing Zones and multi-account environments using Control Tower and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform / CD
• K).Lead and deliver enterprise migration and estate-separation programmes - migrating servers and workloads into AWS using AWS MGN and related tooling, across structured migration wav
• es.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 approach
• es.Design and implement AWS networking for migrations - Transit Gateway, VPN, hybrid connectivity - and deploy application platforms into the target environme
• nt.Support live migration waves and cutovers in production, including planned out-of-hours activity where requir
• ed.Contribute to Well-Architected Reviews, security hardening, DR enablement and cost optimisation across customer estat
• es.Work directly with customer technical stakeholders as a trusted, credible engineer in a consultancy setti
• ng.Collaborate with Solution Architects to translate designs into buildable solutions, and with Project Managers to deliver within SOW scope, timeline and budg
• et.Participate in pre-sales activities: solution scoping, effort estimation and input into Statements of Work and proposa
• ls.Produce clear technical documentation - architecture diagrams, build guides, runbooks and handover materi
• al.Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal knowledge sharing and capability buildi

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Essential Experience & Sk

• illsDemonstrable hands-on AWS engineering experience delivered within a Professional Services, consultancy or Managed Services environm
• ent.Strong core AWS: compute, networking, storage, security and identity (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudWatch and related servic
• es).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 R
• DS).Proven experience building and provisioning infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terrafo
• rm).Experience designing and implementing AWS Landing Zones and multi-account governa
• nce.Experience with architecture design work and the ability to estimate effort for consultancy engageme
• nts.Confident working alongside Project Managers and Solution Architects within structured, SOW-driven delivery te
• ams.Excellent communication skills, comfortable in customer-facing delivery environme
• nts.Based in the UK with the right to work; able to travel to customer sites and Cloud Bridge offices as nee

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Desirable Exper

• ienceExperience using AI tools to support and accelerate delivery work (e.g. Kiro, Claude Code, Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot) - actively finding ways to deliver more efficiently and raise quality through AI-assisted enginee
• ring.Exposure to delivering AI / data solutions for customers (e.g. GenAI / Amazon Bedrock use cases, data platforms and analytics) - beneficial but not essen
• tial.Container platform experience (ECS, EKS) and CI/CD pipeline deli
• very.DR enablement using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery; enterprise identity integra
• tion.Familiarity with security vendors (Palo Alto, Fortinet, CrowdStrike, Sentinel
• One).Experience with AWS partner funding programmes (e.g. MAP, Well-Architec
• ted).AWS certifications - Solutions Architect Associate / Professional, or equiva

lent.
Personal Attr

• ibutesPragmatic, delivery-focused and comfortable operating within fixed-scope engage
• ments.Strong attention to detail when executing build and migration activ
• ities.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 stakeho
• lders.Curious and efficiency-minded - continually looks for smarter, faster ways to deliver, including through AI-assisted to