Location: Greater Manchester
Working pattern: Hybrid, 2–3 days onsite
The Role
We are supporting a large, mission-led organisation in Greater Manchester with the hire of an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS).
This is a hands-on infrastructure role, focused on designing, building, and operating a secure and resilient AWS platform. It is not a DevOps or CI/CD-focused position. The successful candidate will work at platform level, owning infrastructure design decisions and working closely with internal engineering and security teams.
The environment supports business-critical and highly sensitive data, so strong fundamentals in networking, security, and operational resilience are essential.
What you will be doing
- Designing and implementing AWS infrastructure at platform level
- Building and maintaining secure AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity
- Supporting the migration of systems and services from on-premise to AWS
- Working with development teams to deliver compute, storage, database, and container services
- Implementing and operating security controls in line with best practice and organisational standards
- Ensuring logging, monitoring, and alerting are in place and integrated with central security tooling
- Maintaining disaster recovery and backup strategies
- Tracking cloud usage and costs, and supporting cost optimisation and reporting
- Producing clear technical documentation and architectural diagrams
What we are looking for
This role will suit someone with a strong traditional infrastructure background who has moved into cloud engineering.
Essential experience
- Significant experience in infrastructure engineering roles
- Strong hands-on AWS experience, including design and build
- Deep understanding of networking concepts and architecture
- Linux systems administration experience
- Experience designing and operating secure, production AWS environments
- Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions
- Confident explaining and defending infrastructure designs
Desirable experience
- Hybrid environments (on-premise to AWS)
- Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation or Terraform
- AWS security tooling and logging services
- Container platforms such as ECS, Kubernetes, or Docker
- Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments
Why apply
- Work on a large-scale, meaningful cloud platform
- Strong focus on infrastructure quality, security, and design
- Hybrid working model
- Learning budget and protected time for professional development
- Long-term stability within a well-funded organisation
Apply
If you are an infrastructure-focused AWS engineer looking for a role where design quality, security, and operational excellence truly matter, we would be keen to speak with you.
Apply via the link below or contact us for a confidential discussion.
Recann Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We are supporting a client on a confidential basis and will share further details at the appropriate stage of the recruitment process.
