AWS Engineer - MHCLG - G7

Location

Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton

About the job

Job summary

Here at the Ministry of Housing and Local Communities (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives. 

Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we’re all a part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you’re thinking of joining us, there’s never been a more exciting time. We have circa 3,500 staff who are based in 20 offices across the UK.

We’re looking for an "AWS Engineer”, who will sit within Cloud platform team. The AWS Cloud Platform team are responsible for managing Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce governance across accounts. This included the implementation of AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Config for continuous monitoring and the use tools like Terraform and CloudFormation to automate infrastructure deployment.

The team works in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. You’ll be someone who enjoys a challenge, self-motivated, likes to explore new things and be able to respond quickly to new requirements. We support teams that work in an Agile manner with rapid prototyping, and for larger production applications that need to sit on robust and flexible infrastructure.

Job description

As an AWS Engineer, you’ll:

• Be responsible for supporting the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the department’s AWS Organisation and shared services 
• Work closely with architecture, security, and delivery teams to ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, and aligned with departmental goals
• Be critical in supporting the migration of services, deploying new cloud-native capabilities, and ensuring operational excellence across environments
• Maintain and evolve the department’s AWS Organisation, including SCPs, account structure, and billing controls
• Collaborate with delivery teams to design, review, and deploy new services into AWS, ensuring alignment with architectural and security standards
• Support on updating and modernising key infrastructure services, including patching, automation, and performance tuning 
• Support to ensure infrastructure as code (IaC) practices are followed using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation 
• Support in the monitoring and improved cost optimisation, resilience, and operational performance of cloud services
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to the cloud strategy, standards, and best practices across the department

Person specification

As an AWS Engineer, you’ll have:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS core services, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, and Route 53
• Experience managing multi-account AWS Organisations and shared services
• proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Solid understanding of networking, security controls, and identity management in cloud environments
• experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline)
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog)
• Ability to work in agile, cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• AWS Certification (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer
• Experience with cloud security posture management tools (e.g., Wiz)
• Experience with UK Government cloud security principles and NCSC guidance
• Experience working in agile, multidisciplinary teams within large organisations or government departments
• ITIL Foundation certification or experience working within ITIL-aligned service environments