AWS Platform Engineer

Job 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)

Apply now or email for more information.