Platform Engineer

General Description

AWS Platform Engineer (Contract)

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Rate: £500 – £575 per day Outside IR35

Duration: Initial contract until June 2026

Location: Bristol – Once a week on site into Bristol

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to support the design, build and operation of a modern cloud-native platform. This is a long-term contract opportunity, running initially until June 2026 with multiple extensions planned. You’ll be working on a critical AWS estate that underpins multiple business critical services.

You’ll enable development squads through robust infrastructure, automation and Kubernetes based delivery. This role is hands-on, delivery-focused and suited to an engineer who is comfortable owning platform reliability, scalability and security in a complex environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain AWS based platform infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters to support containerised workloads
• Implement and maintain Terraform modules and standards across environments
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for cloud native applications
• Collaborate closely with DevOps, SRE and development teams to improve platform maturity
• Ensure platform resilience, performance, availability and cost optimisation
• Embed security and compliance best practices into platform design (IAM, networking, policies)
• Troubleshoot platform issues, support incident resolution and drive root cause analysis
• Contribute to platform documentation, standards and continuous improvement initiatives

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience as an AWS Platform / Cloud / DevOps Engineer
• Deep knowledge of AWS services, particularly EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch
• Proven commercial experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong Terraform experience xwzovoh (module design, state management, best practices)
• Experience working with containerisation (Docker)
• CI/CD tooling experience (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Solid Linux fundamentals and scripting experience (Bash, Python or similar)
• Experience operating platforms in complex, multi-environment setups

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with platform security, policy as code or compliance frameworks
• Exposure to SRE practices (observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management)
• Experience supporting large-scale or regulated environments
• AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level)