Tasks AWS Security & Cloud Platform consultant Location: London,UK 3months + Contract with possible extension Role Summary We are seeking an experienced AWS Security & Cloud Platform Consultant to lead the technical execution of a large-scale Defensive AI and Bot Mitigation Proof of Value for a high-volume enterprise digital platform.
The consultant will design, build, and deploy cloud-native security controls, observability solutions, traffic analytics, automation frameworks, and AI-assisted operational capabilities using AWS services and Infrastructure as Code.
The role requires deep expertise in AWS networking, CloudFront, WAF, security automation, observability, large-scale log analytics, and cloud-native delivery practices.
Configure managed rule sets, rate-limiting controls, traffic classification, and bot mitigation capabilities.
Implement layered security controls to identify and mitigate malicious traffic.
Build and optimize edge caching strategies to reduce origin load and operational costs.
Infrastructure as Code & Platform Engineering Develop Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Contribute code through enterprise Git repositories and CI/CD pipelines.
Create reusable deployment templates, automation scripts, and operational runbooks.
Observability & Analytics Implement logging pipelines using: AWS WAF Logs Kinesis Firehose Amazon S3 Amazon Athena CloudWatch Develop scheduled analytics queries and reporting frameworks.
Establish operational dashboards, KPIs, alerting, and performance monitoring.
Analyse traffic patterns and produce security and cost optimisation insights.
Bot Detection & Threat Intelligence Develop traffic profiling and behavioural analysis models.
Analyse API usage, fingerprinting signals, client patterns, token.