AWS Platform Engineer

AWS Platform Engineer - NHS Experience RequiredLocation: Leeds (1 day per month on-site)Rate: 650 per day Inside IR35Contract Length: Until November 2026 OverviewWe 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 ResponsibilitiesDesign, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC toolLead the transition away from Puppet toward Terraform-based configuration managementWrite and maintain Ansible playbooks for configuration, patching, and deployment tasksManage and support Linux-based server environments across the platformEnsure infrastructure is secure, scalable, and aligned with NHS standards and compliance requirementsCollaborate with DevOps, security, and application teams to deliver reliable cloud environmentsSupport incident resolution and platform troubleshooting as requiredContribute to documentation, runbooks, and platform engineering best practices Key RequirementsStrong, hands-on Terraform experience (modules, state management, remote backends)AWS expertise across core services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatchLinux system administration in an enterprise environment (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)Ansible: writing and managing playbooks for configuration and ..... full job details .....