Platform Engineer at Cititec Talent Limited, England, 5+ Months, £Contract Rate

AWS Platform Engineer - Database Migration, AI & Automation | UK Based | Outside IR35 Contract

I'm currently looking for an AWS Platform Engineer to support a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration programme for a public sector client. The project involves discovery and migration planning for approximately 200 Linux virtual machines, including around 30 VMs running Legacy Ingres databases and OpenROAD applications.

Eperience required:

• * Strong AWS platform engineering experience, including VPC, hybrid connectivity, Direct Connect, DNS and security groups.
• * Experience planning large-scale VMware-to-AWS migrations using tools such as AWS MGN and Application Discovery Service.
• * Experience with AWS Transform, Kiro or similar AI-assisted modernisation tools.
• * Database migration experience, including data migration, reconciliation and performance baselining.
• * Strong Terraform/OpenTofu and Python or Bash Scripting skills.
• * Strong Linux experience, including performance analysis.
• * Experience with infrastructure automation, application dependency mapping and migration planning.

Experience with Ingres, OpenROAD, PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL or VMware HCX would be advantageous.