Location: Greater Manchester
Working pattern: Hybrid, 2–3 days onsite
Employment Type: Permanent
The Role
We are supporting a large, mission-led, Non-For-Profit 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.
Important information
This vacancy is advertised by Recann, acting as an employment agency on behalf of its client.
The identity of the hiring organisation will be disclosed during the recruitment process.
Recann does not charge work seekers any fees for its recruitment services.
Candidate data will be processed in accordance with UK data protection legislation.
Further role information, including duties, reporting line, and working arrangements, will be provided prior to formal candidate submission.
