Platform Engineer

Project overview

My client is a global IT consultancy, who are recruiting for a Platform Engineer

Position Description

Project details

London - Fenchurch Street 2-3 days per week

Start - ASAP

End - 31/03/26

Pay - £650pd Inside IR35 via umbrella

This role requires SC Clearance, please do not apply if you do not hold active SC

. Strong experience designing, building and operating cloud platforms and solutions, with AWS as your primary cloud provider.

. Hands on Terraform experience implementing Infrastructure as Code at scale and developing reusable modules

. A strong understanding of AWS services and cloud native architecture patterns.

. Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and GitLab CI/CD.

. Strong experience working with Docker and containerised workloads.

. Experience developing or supporting serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and other AWS managed services.

. Strong Scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python or Bash.

. Experience producing high quality technical designs and documentation.

. Experience of working in agile delivery teams, mentoring engineers and helping establish engineering standards.

. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

. A passion for continuous improvement, learning new technologies and modern platform engineering practices.

Nice to haves

. Experience with AWS container services such as ECS or EKS is desirable; Kubernetes experience is welcomed but not essential.

. Designing or operating multi account AWS environments.

. DevSecOps practices and integrating security throughout the software delivery life cycle.

. Strong experience with Microsoft Azure or other cloud providers is desirable in lieu of AWS experience.

. Experience working within secure or highly regulat ed environments.

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 81-81 EUR/h