Contract AWS Platform Engineer - Replatforming Programme (Outside IR35)
Role: AWS Platform Engineer
Day Rate: £450 a day
Duration: Initial 6 months
IR35: Outside IR35
Location: Fully remote (UK-based)
A growing technology consultancy is supporting a well-known UK brand on a significant platform reengineering programme. The current platform has evolved organically and includes multiple approaches to hosting the same application suite, limited Infrastructure as Code adoption, a high degree of manual configuration, and bespoke customer-specific implementations that create complexity and slow down progress.
A new hosting platform has been introduced using pre-built images and Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, which has proven successful at MVP stage. The focus now is to expand, mature and scale this platform across the wider estate.
Responsibilities
* Design and build a scalable, standardised AWS hosting platform
* Extend Infrastructure as Code coverage across the platform, particularly around databases and related services
* Support the migration of existing customers onto the new platform
* Consolidate environments, including migration from multiple AWS accounts into a unified structure
* Replace manually configured services and processes with automated, repeatable pipelines
* Design and implement solutions to remove legacy, bespoke integrations that are currently blocking progress
* Integrate data migrations and deployment of customisations such as stored procedures and reporting into the platform
* Build out monitoring, operational tooling and self-service capabilities to support engineering teams and customers
Essential experience
* Strong AWS platform engineering
* Cloud hosting platforms at scale
* Hands-on Terraform and IaC
* EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS / SQL Server
* Improving organically grown, manually configured environments
* Incremental delivery without service disruption
Desirable experience
* Packer or image-based infrastructure
* Database platform engineering: SSRS, SSIS
* Multi-account or multi-environment migration and consolidation
* Automation across networking, security or edge services such as Cloudflare