AWS Platform Engineer - 6 Months - up to £600/day Outside IR35
Posted Today by Involved Solutions
£600 Per day
Outside
Remote
City of London, London
Summary: The AWS Platform Engineer role involves joining a leading organization undergoing a digital transformation, focusing on enhancing their cloud platform capabilities. The position requires expertise in AWS and DevOps practices to ensure the delivery of robust and scalable cloud services. This contract role emphasizes collaboration with various teams to implement cloud-native solutions and optimize platform performance. The successful candidate will contribute to the organization's strategic cloud initiatives while working in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for high-availability cloud-based solutions.
- Manage cloud resources within AWS, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency and compliance.
- Collaborate with software engineering, architecture and security teams to implement scalable cloud-native solutions.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise platform performance and availability using AWS-native tools and observability platforms.
- Contribute to platform reliability, automation and DevOps best practices within an Agile environment.
Key Skills:
- Strong commercial experience designing and supporting production platforms on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools, ideally Terraform (or CloudFormation).
- Expertise in CI/CD tooling, such as GitLab CI, Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline.
- Proficient in scripting or automation (e.g. Python, Bash or PowerShell).
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, ECS, EKS) and microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana).
- Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance within cloud environments.
Salary (Rate): 600
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT