AWS Platform Engineer

AWS Platform Engineer| 6 months | Predominantly Remote (Edinburgh based)

Day Rate - up to 560

Duration - 12 month

Harvey Nash's client is recruiting for an AWS Platform Engineer for an initial duration of 12 months, with the possibility to extend. Occasional office attendance required.

Main Responsibilities

• Work alongside Product Teams to ensure the good practices developing, testing, deploying and supporting products on AWS.
• Design, build and support services for software delivery with a focus on the client's AWS Platform.
• Develop, build and support people to use libraries (usually CDK constructs) and vended services that wrap and present platform features.
• Improve security of Lambda functions
• Deprecation of on-prem products in favour of cloud based alternatives (Imperva WAF, RabbitMQ, Postgres, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB, Jenkins)
• Ensure platform meets client governance and security requirements.
• Support client core platforms (container platform, monitoring, telemetry).

Key Skills

• Designing and building platforms in AWS.
• AWS Serverless technologies.
• CI/CD methodology and native AWS CI/CD tooling.
• Defining infrastructure and processes as code.
• Working in the 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.

Desirable Skills & Experience

Commercial experience of the following:

• Enterprise scale software builds and integration
• Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards
• Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practice
• Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
• Prisma Cloud
• OpenShift

Please note that for this role you must have, or be happy to apply for, a Basic Disclosure Scotland. To apply, please send your CV using the link.