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