Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer role involves hands-on remediation of cloud and application vulnerabilities within AWS environments for a client in the data sector. The position requires collaboration with developers and security leads to validate findings and implement secure fixes, with a focus on delivery and ownership of issues. This is a hybrid role based in London, with an expectation to work in the office three days a week. The contract duration is initially set for 3 to 6 months, paying up to £500 per day outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Remediate cloud and application vulnerabilities across AWS environments.
- Collaborate with Developers, Data Engineers, and the AWS Security Lead to validate findings and prioritize risks.
- Implement secure fixes and strengthen AWS security controls.
- Own issues end to end in a delivery-focused role.
Key Skills:
- Deep, hands-on AWS security experience across IAM, networking, compute, storage, and serverless.
- Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config, and Access Analyzer.
- Vulnerability remediation across OS/packages, containers, libraries, and cloud misconfigurations.
- CI/CD and DevSecOps practices including shift-left reviews and dependency management.
- Infrastructure as Code security using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Python or Bash automation for remediation and control validation.
- Experience with scanning tools such as Inspector, Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot, or Prisma/Tenable.
Salary (Rate): £500 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer for our client in the data sector, based in London, on an initial 3 to 6 month contract paying up to £500 per day Outside IR35. This role offers hybrid working with an expectation to attend the office 3 days per week. You will focus on hands-on remediation of cloud and application vulnerabilities across AWS environments. The position involves working closely with Developers, Data Engineers and the AWS Security Lead to validate findings, prioritise risk, implement secure fixes, and strengthen AWS security controls. This is a delivery-focused role where you will own issues end to end. The successful AWS Security Engineer will have experience with: Deep, hands-on AWS security across IAM, networking, compute, storage and serverless AWS security controls including IAM least privilege, VPC segmentation, private endpoints, WAF/Shield, KMS, secrets management and logging Operating AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config and Access Analyzer Vulnerability remediation across OS/packages, containers, libraries, serverless runtimes and cloud misconfigurations CI/CD and DevSecOps practices including shift-left reviews, dependency management and pipeline guardrails Infrastructure as Code security using Terraform and/or CloudFormation Python or Bash automation to streamline remediation and control validation Working with common scanning tools such as Inspector, Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot or Prisma/Tenable Nice to have: AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Security Speciality, Solutions Architect, container/serverless security experience, or policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Conftest. Interested? Please apply below. AWS Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Vulnerability Remediation, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM Security, VPC Security, KMS, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD Security, Python, Container Security, London, Hybrid
