AWS Platform Engineer at Inara, United Kingdom, £450 per day

Contract AWS Platform Engineer - Replatforming Programme (Outside IR35)

Role: AWS Platform Engineer

Day Rate: £450 a day

Duration: Initial 6 months

IR35: Outside IR35

Location: Fully remote (UK-based)

A growing technology consultancy is supporting a well-known UK brand on a significant platform reengineering programme. The current platform has evolved organically and includes multiple approaches to hosting the same application suite, limited Infrastructure as Code adoption, a high degree of manual configuration, and bespoke customer-specific implementations that create complexity and slow down progress.

A new hosting platform has been introduced using pre-built images and Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, which has proven successful at MVP stage. The focus now is to expand, mature and scale this platform across the wider estate.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable, standardised AWS hosting platform
• Extend Infrastructure as Code coverage across the platform, particularly around databases and related services
• Support the migration of existing customers onto the new platform
• Consolidate environments, including migration from multiple AWS accounts into a unified structure
• Replace manually configured services and processes with automated, repeatable pipelines
• Design and implement solutions to remove legacy, bespoke integrations that are currently blocking progress
• Integrate data migrations and deployment of customisations such as stored procedures and reporting into the platform
• Build out monitoring, operational tooling and self-service capabilities to support engineering teams and customers

Essential experience

• Strong AWS platform engineering
• Cloud hosting platforms at scale
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC
• EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS / SQL Server
• Improving organically grown, manually configured environments
• Incremental delivery without service disruption

Desirable experience

• Packer or image-based infrastructure
• Database platform engineering: SSRS, SSIS
• Multi-account or multi-environment migration and consolidation
• Automation across networking, security or edge services such as Cloudflare