Platform Engineer

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

Position Description

Base Location: 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.