AWS Platform Engineer - Contract
TechShackSenior Platform Engineer – AWS £350–£400 per day | Outside IR35 | Fully Remote We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a major UK organisation on a long-term contract, working across a large-scale, high-traffic AWS environment. The focus will be on modernising a complex legacy AWS estate - understanding existing infrastructure, retiring what's no longer required, migrating resources into Terraform and improving security across the platform. You'll be working hands-on across:
- AWS – EKS, Lambda, RDS/Postgres, CloudFront, IAM & VPC
- Terraform – including migrating existing CloudFormation/manual infrastructure
- Kubernetes & Docker
- CircleCI & GitHub
- Linux + Python/Bash scripting
- Infrastructure security, monitoring & observability
- Agentic AI infrastructure on AWS, including Bedrock/AgentCore We're looking for someone with 8+ years in Platform, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering, deep AWS experience and a strong background working with complex production environments. Experience within high-traffic media, publishing or consumer platforms would be a bonus. Contract: 8 months Rate: £350–£400 per day IR35: Outside IR35 Location: Fully Remote Please apply with your latest CV and availability. Senior Platform Engineer – AWS
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