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.

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