Platform Engineer - Leeds/Remote - £450+ p/d Inside IR35

Senior Python Developer with Platform Engineering Exposure Rate: £450 per day Inside IR35 Duration: 6 months initially Start: ASAP Location: Mostly remote, with travel to Leeds around once per month Clearance: SC clearance required or must be eligible On-call: Required once up to speed, currently 1 in 6 weeks We are looking for a Senior Python Developer with strong exposure to AWS, Terraform, CI/CD and secure software delivery to support a nationally critical healthcare integration and messaging platform. The role is primarily hands-on Python development, with responsibility for contributing to cloud-native platform work, improving CI/CD processes, supporting code quality gates, and helping ensure deployments meet security, technical and governance standards. Key Skills Strong Python application development experience AWS or wider public cloud experience Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling Secure SDLC and secure coding experience Observability, monitoring or logging tools Experience supporting complex production systems or incident investigations Responsibilities Develop secure, maintainable Python code Support cloud-native application development Improve CI/CD pipelines and code quality processes Work with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code Support observability, monitoring and incident investigation Work with product teams on cloud and platform best practice Participate in the on-call rota once fully onboarded Nice to ..... full job details .....