AWS Platform Engineer

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)

Apply now or email for more information.