SC Cleared AWS Engineer

  • Opus Recruitment Solutions
  • City, Manchester
  • 08/09/2025
Contractor Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

I am working with a consultancy feeding into the public sector who are on the lookout for an SC cleared AWS DevOps engineer.

Weekly travel to Manchester/ Leeds/ Newcastle
Inside IR35
6 month
Active SC
400 per day
Immediate start

The skillset
Support the standing up multiple environments on AWS
Support the management of the AWS stack / Git pipelines across mix of React front-end, microservices, lambda functions,

Kafka integration, possible mix of Transit Gateway / Private Link, use of Kong EE
MFA / IAM role management for team of developers
Correctly tagging cloud resources per DWP central FinOps standards

Skills required:
REQUIRED/NON-NEGOTIABLE: Full AWS stack (inc. Lambda, SQS, SNS), IAM management for pipelines and users, blue/green deployment experience, Terraform or Cloud Formation, Prometheus, CloudWatch
NICE TO HAVE: SonarQube, Wiz, FinOps tagging experience (apptio), Kafka, Kong EE, Dynatrace, micro-UI patterns (jwt tokenisation and passthrough)