Software Engineer AWS - Nottingham

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

• We ideally have strong hands-on experience with Node.js and/or TypeScript, alongside modern JavaScript.
• We have experience with AWS, particularly Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and IAM.
• We have experience with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• We have experience with automated testing, ideally Jest.
• We have experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• We have experience with REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
• We have cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, least privilege and secrets management.
• We have experience working in Agile software engineering and full lifecycle delivery.
• Experience with React or another modern frontend framework is a bonus.
• Experience with Java, Go, C#, Rust or another strongly typed language is a bonus.
• Experience with internal developer platforms or shared engineering services is a bonus.
• Experience with AWS Connect, voice, telephony or contact centre technologies is a bonus.
• Experience with event streaming technologies such as Kinesis, EventBridge, Kafka or SQS/SNS is a bonus.

• We design, build and maintain serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS and SNS.
• We develop clean, maintainable and well-tested TypeScript / Node.js services.
• We build RESTful and event-driven APIs across microservices and distributed workloads.
• We own features end-to-end, from requirements and design through to testing, deployment and incident response.
• We design and manage AWS infrastructure using CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• We build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar.
• We implement monitoring, alerting and observability across production environments.
• We work with AWS IAM, secrets management and security best practices.
• We collaborate with product, platform and DevOps teams to deliver scalable engineering solutions.
• We contribute to technical design, documentation, runbooks and architectural decisions.

• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Frontend
• GitHub
• IAM
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Jest
• Kafka
• REST
• React
• Rust
• Security
• Serverless
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• microservices
• NodeJS

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We are hiring a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer in Nottingham, working in a hybrid setup with 3 days per week in the office. This is a great opportunity to join an engineering team building cloud-native applications and internal platforms, with a salary range of £50,000 - £85,000. You will have genuine ownership over the technology you build, working across software engineering, cloud infrastructure and automation rather than being siloed into one area.

last updated 39 week of 2026