Platform Engineer

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 [email protected] for more information.