AWS Cloud Engineer

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From our London HQ, we unite world‑class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution — because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together we’re building a world‑class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.

As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high‑impact research – designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.

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We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer totake ownership of our AWS landing zones and shared platform services by designing secure, scalable, multi‑account environments that balance autonomy for engineering teams with strong governance and compliance.

You’lldeliver robust, automated foundations using infrastructure as code, enabling consistent and repeatable cloud adoption across the organisation.

This is a highly collaborative role, working closely with application engineers, architecture, security and other platform teams to support the design and delivery of cloud‑based workloads.

You’llprovidearchitectural guidance, define best practices and ensure reliability, security and operational excellence are embedded throughout the stack.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Designing andoperatingsecure, scalable multi‑account AWS environments and platform foundations
• Defining and implementing organisation‑level security controls, tooling and observability capabilities
• Collaborating with architecture, security and engineering teams to continuously improve compliance, reliability, cost efficiency and user experience
• Acting as a subject matter expert for application teams, providing guidance and hands‑on support with cloud‑native application design, deployment and effective use of the platform
• Building andmaintaininginfrastructure‑as‑code patterns and automation to support consistent cloud adoption
• Tracking AWS service developments and evolving platform capabilities and best practices
• Participating in the out‑of‑hours rota to support critical systems

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong experience designing and operating AWS‑based platforms and distributed systems
• Hands‑on experience running production, multi‑account AWS environments
• A security‑first mindset, with experience building platforms in regulated or security‑sensitive environments
• Solid understanding of AWS identity, networking and dataperimetercontrols
• Experience defining guardrails and platform standards that enable teams to move quickly and safely
• Deep, hands‑on experience with AWS security services used at scale, including Organizations, Cloud Trail, Security Hub, Config,Guard Duty and Inspector
• Proficiency in Terraform and Python for infrastructure automation
• Familiarity integrating cloud infrastructure into CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working across engineering, architecture and security teams
• The ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme
• Monthly company events