Harvey Nash's client is recruiting for an AWS Platform Engineer role on an initial 6 month contract. You will work alongside our IT Infrastructure Team and IT Cloud Project and will be responsible for building, maintaining and optimising our cloud Infrastructure. The successful candidate will have a strong infrastructure background, with deep expertise in AWS-native engineering and cloud platform operations.
Essential skills:
- Experience in a senior AWS platform engineering or cloud infrastructure role.
- Proven ability to translate cloud architecture designs into engineered solutions, including infrastructure, security, and CI/CD automation.
- Expert-level hands-on experience with AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS (particularly Oracle), CloudWatch, and Systems Manager.
- Demonstrable experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly using Terraform to build reusable modules, enforce guardrails, and support multi-environment deployments.
- Strong working knowledge of AWS-native CI/CD services such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline, or equivalent tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Experience operating RHEL and Windows workloads in AWS, including system hardening, patch management, and automation using Systems Manager.
- Solid understanding of AWS security services, including IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Config, and VPC security controls (SGs, NACLs, routing).
- Experience implementing platform-level monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, Alarms, and integration with centralised dashboards or SIEM tooling.
- Familiarity with tagging strategies, cost allocation, and FinOps-aware engineering to support operational governance.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex deployment and runtime issues, particularly within hybrid environments or multi-account AWS setups.
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