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AWS Platform Engineer

McGregor Boyall
Posted 10 days ago, valid for 19 days
Location

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh EH105BP, Scotland

Salary

£520 - £35 per day

Contract type

Full Time

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  • One of our public sector clients is seeking an AWS Platform Engineer for a contract position in their IT department.
  • The ideal candidate should have experience in designing and building platforms in AWS, including AWS serverless technologies and CI/CD methodologies.
  • A competitive day rate of around £520 is offered for this 12-month contract, which may be extended.
  • Candidates must have relevant experience and be willing to travel to Scotland for occasional meetings.
  • This position allows for mostly remote work, aligning with Agile delivery models such as Scrum or Kanban.

One of our public sector clients is looking for an AWS Platform Engineer to join their IT department on a contract basis.

You will have the following experience and knowledge:

  • Designing and building platforms in AWS.
  • AWS Serverless technologies.
  • CI/CD methodology and native AWS CI/CD tooling.
  • Automated testing within AWS
  • Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks
  • AWS Shield Advanced, WAFv2, AWS Firewall Manager
  • AWS Lambda, CDK, S3, Cloud Formation, API Gateway, EC2, AMIs
  • GuardDuty, Transit Gateway, AWS Config, Route53, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Codepipeline, CodeArtifact,
  • Containerised platforms, Openshift, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate.
  • Python, Bash, Ansible, Groovy
  • Git, Artifactory, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana
  • AWSLinux, RHel, Ubuntu,
  • Experience with AWS Security and Networks.
  • Experience using Prisma Cloud

Our client operates a mostly remote working model. However, you may be required on-site in Edinburgh or Glasgow for the occasional meeting. As such, you must be willing to travel to Scotland when required.

12-month contract with possible extension, competitive day rate around £520 (outside ir35).

If interested, please apply via the ad or email your CV to

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.