AWS Platform Engineer
Core
Designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure for a critical NHS programme, leading migration from Puppet to Terraform.
Role type
Senior AWS Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure platforms for NHS Digital standards and HSCN environments
Domain
Healthcare / Public Sector Cloud
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Terraform (modules, state management, remote backends), AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch), Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu), Ansible (playbooks for configuration and deployment), NHS Digital standards and governance familiarity
Preferred skills
Puppet experience, public sector or regulated cloud environment experience, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
Technologies
Terraform, AWS, Ansible, Linux, Puppet, Jenkins, GitLab CI
Responsibilities
Design and provision AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Lead transition from Puppet to Terraform-based configuration, Write and maintain Ansible playbooks, Manage and support Linux-based server environments, Ensure infrastructure security and compliance with NHS standards, Collaborate with DevOps and security teams, Support incident resolution and platform troubleshooting, Contribute to documentation and platform engineering best practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC