AWS Infrastructure Engineer – Fix it. Strengthen it. Scale it.
£70,000 – £80,000 | Remote-first | Travel to Portsmouth (once/month)
Some AWS roles are about maintaining what’s already there.
This one is about making it better.
You’ll be joining a small infrastructure team as the AWS specialist as the person who looks at the current setup, challenges it, and helps shape what “good” really looks like.
If you enjoy getting into the detail, improving environments, and leaving things in a better state than you found them… this will suit you.
What’s in it for you?
- Salary: £70,000 – £80,000
- Working pattern: Remote-first (occasional travel to Portsmouth data centre)
- Team: Small, high-impact infra team (you’ll be the third engineer)
- Influence: Genuine say in technical direction and standards
- Environment: AWS-first, with hybrid infrastructure and modern DevSecOps practices
- Opportunity: Help shape a growing business moving from “move fast” to “build properly”
What’s the role really about?
This isn’t a greenfield build.
And it’s not a perfectly polished environment either.
It’s somewhere in the middle - built quickly, now ready to be reviewed, improved, and strengthened for scale.
You’ll:
- Assess the current AWS setup
- Reduce technical debt
- Improve security and segmentation
- Help define what a robust, scalable environment should look like
Less “keep it running”.
More “make it right”.
What you’ll be doing
- Reviewing and improving the existing AWS infrastructure
- Strengthening security, segmentation, and best practice architecture
- Supporting a hybrid setup across cloud and on-prem environments
- Handling technical issues and escalations when needed
- Working closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure and development
- Helping move teams further toward AWS and away from on-prem dependencies
- Contributing to automation and DevSecOps practices already in place
- Communicating clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders
What you’ll bring
- Strong, hands-on AWS experience (3-5+ years) - beyond just setup and migration
- A background in infrastructure / on-prem environments, now cloud-focused
- Solid understanding of:
- VPC, networking, and segmentation
- Secure, scalable AWS architecture
- Hybrid infrastructure environments
- A practical approach to AWS security and best practice
- Ideally exposure to other cloud platforms (Azure ideally) - enough to understand multi-cloud environments, even if AWS is your core strength
- Experience working alongside engineering teams in modern environments
- The confidence to challenge, improve, and push standards forward
The reality of the role
This is a fast-growing business that’s historically moved quickly.
Now it’s time to tighten things up.
Better structure. Stronger foundations. Less technical debt.
They need someone who can step into that environment and bring clarity, direction, and improvement.
This role suits someone who doesn’t just want to run infrastructure… but wants to shape it.
Interested?
Send your CV to bob . bath @ mexasolutions . com
