Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) – Bristol (Hybrid, 3 Days Onsite)
£50,000 – £60,000

I’m currently partnering with a well-established and growing software business operating within the insurance sector. The business is investing heavily in its cloud infrastructure and information security capabilities. As a result, they are looking to hire a Cloud Engineer to take ownership of their AWS environment in a newly created, standalone DevOps/Cloud position.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone senior enough to work independently, drive improvements, and take full responsibility for the design, security, optimisation, and ongoing management of the cloud estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure

• Manage core AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS (Aurora MySQL), VPC and Lambda

• Implement infrastructure automation and support CI/CD pipeline improvements

• Monitor system performance using CloudWatch and optimise resource utilisation and cost

• Lead on IAM management and cloud security best practices

• Support potential cloud-to-cloud or infrastructure migration initiatives

• Develop dashboards and metrics to monitor performance and enterprise client requirements

• Act as the primary cloud and DevOps specialist within the technology team

What They Are Looking For

• 5+ years’ experience managing AWS cloud environments

• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure knowledge with the ability to operate autonomously

• Experience with automation and CI/CD (Azure DevOps knowledge beneficial)

• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, ideally including exposure to CSA CCM and OWASP best practices

• Experience working within Windows environments (IIS via AWS AMIs)

• Database management and optimisation experience (Aurora RDS / MySQL preferred)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience supporting or delivering cloud migration projects is highly desirable

• Insurance or InsurTech experience is advantageous but not essential

The role is based in central Bristol, with an expectation of three days per week in the office.

For a confidential discussion, please contact:

? jhayes@harrisonholgate.com
? 07436 072810