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.
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