AWS Platform Engineer

Description:

AWS Platform Engineer - NHS Experience Required

Location: Leeds (1 day per month on-site)

Rate: £650 per day Inside IR35

Contract Length: Until November 2026

Overview

We are looking for an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to join a critical NHS programme on a contract basis. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, leading the migration from Puppet to a fully Terraform-driven platform across a complex, regulated healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool
Lead the transition away from Puppet toward Terraform-based configuration management
Write and maintain Ansible playbooks for configuration, patching, and deployment tasks
Manage and support Linux-based server environments across the platform
Ensure infrastructure is secure, scalable, and aligned with NHS standards and compliance requirements
Collaborate with DevOps, security, and application teams to deliver reliable cloud environments
Support incident resolution and platform troubleshooting as required
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and platform engineering best practices

Key Requirements

Strong, hands-on Terraform experience (modules, state management, remote backends)
AWS expertise across core services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch
Linux system administration in an enterprise environment (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
Ansible: writing and managing playbooks for configuration and deployment
Demonstrable NHS experience: familiarity with NHS Digital standards, governance, or HSCN environments. Candidates without direct NHS experience will not be considered

Desirable

Puppet experience: prior exposure is advantageous given the active migration away from it
Experience within public sector or regulated cloud environments
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)

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