AWS Consultant (Contract

Our enterprise client is Principal Consultant responsible for AWS backup strategy, cyber resilience, and Terraform-led infrastructure automation.

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 40 Days
Pay Rate: £790 p/d (

PLEASE NOTE:

Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Daily Earnings: £897 p/d (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status:
Inside
Location:
London

Responsibilities:

• Senior enterprise authority responsible for AWS backup strategy, cyber resilience, and Terraform-led infrastructure automation.
• Focus on centralised AWS backup architectures and NIST-aligned security frameworks across enterprise environments.
• Accountabilities.
• Define AWS backup and disaster recovery strategies across multi-account environments.
• Establish centralised backup architectures with cross-account and cross-region governance.
• Align solutions to NIST Cybersecurity Framework and disaster recovery standards.
• Lead Terraform adoption and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Act as Design Authority for complex and regulated environments.
• Provide delivery leadership across discovery, design, build, and optimisation stages.

Technical

Skills:

• Deep AWS Backup and disaster recovery expertise.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, DynamoDB).
• Knowledge of AWS Organisations and Control Tower.
• Strong understanding of NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Delivery of centralised AWS backup platforms.
• Adoption of Terraform-based automation standards.
• Improved customer cyber resilience and recovery capability.
• Alignment to NIST and regulatory standards.

Certifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Security – Specialty
• Hashi Corp Terraform Associate
• CISSP or CISM (desirable)

Soft Skills:

• A strong desire to help others by sharing knowledge, peer reviewing, and contributing to technical and process standards.
• Work well within a team, report issues and risks, take part in team meetings, share ideas and work towards improving our service.
• Excellent written & verbal communication with customers to understand and to influence.