Cloud Engineer

Lorien • city of edinburgh, scotland • Posted June 19, 2026

Position Overview

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