Platform Engineer

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh is currently looking to recruit RHEL AWS Platform Engineer for an initial 6 month contract a rate of £475/day (Outside IR35). These roles will be hybrid working.

Responsibilities:

- Build and standardise RHEL 8/9 environments across AWS

- Implement OS hardening and security baselines (CIS/STIG aligned)

- Develop automation (Ansible / AWS SSM) for configuration and patching

- Design and implement monitoring and logging integration (CloudWatch)

- Optimise storage and performance

- Establish a repeatable, scalable operating model for Linux workloads

- Support knowledge transfer and upskilling within the Service Delivery team

- Collaboration and Coaching: A track record of working across traditional infrastructure teams, supporting capability uplift and process embedding.

- Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Comfortable producing clear engineering documentation and mentoring others on tooling and best practice.

Essential Skills:

- Proven experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8/9) in enterprise environments

- Proven ability to translate cloud architecture designs into engineered solutions, including infrastructure, security, and CI/CD automation.

- Solid understanding of Linux system administration.

- Experience implementing OS hardening and security best practices

- Experience operating RHEL and Windows workloads in AWS, including system hardening, patch management, and automation using Systems Manager.

- Strong knowledge of patching and package management using yum / dnf and automation tools.

- Experience in monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting Linux systems in production.

- Familiarity with networking concepts.

- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working alongside traditional infrastructure teams and supporting knowledge transfer and uplift.

- Experience integrating Linux with Active Directory (SSSD / LDAP)

Desirable Skills:

- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform / CloudFormation)

- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

- Knowledge of container platforms (Docker / Kubernetes / OpenShift)

- Red Hat certifications (RHCSA / RHCE)

- Experience with AWS services

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.