Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, UK?? New Contract Opportunity
Lead Platform Engineer (AWS Migration) - £600pd Inside IR35?? Remote (UK-Based)?? Start Date:Ideally 5th January? Duration:3 months (initial)WRK digitalare delighted to be shortlisting for a contract AWS to drive the migration of a AI start-up core platform fromAzure 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 Youll Be DoingLeading the end-to-end migration of the clientsweb application, API, and databasefrom Azure to AWS.Designing and building AWS infrastructure usingTerraform, covering compute, networking, security, Postgres, and application services.Implementing Bitbucket-basedCI pipelinesto build, test, and validate application code automatically.CreatingCD pipelineswith 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 toAWS RDS Postgres, ensuring minimal downtime.Setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide full visibility across the new AWS environment.ApplyingAWS Well-Architectedprinciples to ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and cost-efficient from day one.Essential Skills & ExperienceTerraform:Strong infrastructure-as-code expertise across AWS (compute, networking, databases, IAM).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.TPBN1_UKTJ