Senior AWS Infra Engineer — Linux & Hybrid Cloud

At IBM Consulting UK Future Now, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

As a Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll use your deep technical expertise to design, build, and support secure, scalable infrastructure environments across both cloud and on-premise platforms. Working within a highly collaborative technical team, you’ll play a key role in delivering resilient Linux-based infrastructure solutions that support mission-critical services for public sector and defence customers, ensuring compliance, security, and operational excellence across highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and support of secure AWS infrastructure platforms with a strong focus on Linux systems, enterprise infrastructure services, and cloud-native best practices

• Design and manage AWS services, and cloud-native best practices

• Design and manage AWS services including EC2, VPCs, IAM, Route
53, Cloud Watch, S3, EBS, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, and backup/recovery solutions in line with public sector and defence security requirements

• Manage and optimise Linux server environments, ensuring high availability, hardening, patching, performance, and compliance with security standards and operational policies

• Support and maintain core infrastructure technologies including networking, middleware, DNS, VPNs, monitoring, logging, and enterprise tooling

• Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to integrate AWS infrastructure solutions into CI/CD pipelines and operational support models

• Contribute to infrastructure automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation

• Support containerised workloads and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI-O across secure and scalable environments

• Implement and support AWS security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, logging, including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, logging, auditing, and vulnerability remediation

• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, security, and capacity using enterprise monitoring and logging platforms such as Splunk and Cloud Watch

• Support disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience strategies across AWS and hybrid infrastructure environments

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards, operational documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Contribute to infrastructure strategy, operational roadmaps, cloud migration, and platform…