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Recruitment Consultant at WRK digital - connecting Cloud enthusiasts with the best opportunities for career development and personal growth!🚀
🚀 New Contract Opportunity – Lead Platform Engineer (AWS Migration) - £600pd Inside IR35
📅 Start Date: Ideally 5th January
WRK digital are delighted to be shortlisting for a contract AWS to drive the migration of an AI start‑up core platform from Azure to AWS.
This is a hands‑on, delivery‑focused role where you'll design the future foundation of their platform, establish modern CI/CD practices, and lead a business‑critical cloud migration.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Leading the end-to-end migration of the client’s web application, API, and database from Azure to AWS.
* Designing and building AWS infrastructure using Terraform, covering compute, networking, security, Postgres, and application services.
* Implementing Bitbucket‑based CI pipelines to build, test, and validate application code automatically.
* Creating CD pipelines with ephemeral environments that spin up dynamically on pull requests for isolated testing.
* Establishing robust production deployment workflows with approval gates and rollback mechanisms.
* Planning and executing the migration of the Azure‑hosted database to AWS RDS Postgres, ensuring minimal downtime.
* Setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide full visibility across the new AWS environment.
* Applying AWS Well‑Architected principles to ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient from day one.
* AWS Core Services: Hands‑on experience with ECS/Fargate or EC2, RDS Postgres, VPC, ALB, Route 53, CloudWatch.
* CI/CD: Proven ability to build sophisticated CI/CD workflows including ephemeral environments and approval stages (Bitbucket Pipelines or similar).
* Database Migration: Experience migrating to AWS RDS Postgres, including planning, dry‑runs, and cutovers with minimal disruption.
* Ephemeral Environments: Understanding of on‑demand environment provisioning for PR‑based automated testing.
* Azure to AWS Migration: Familiarity with Azure equivalents (VMs, Azure SQL/Postgres) and their AWS counterparts.
* Node.js & Postgres: Knowledge of hosting Node.js applications and Postgres databases in production environments.
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