At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and manage AWS infrastructure, leading the migration to Terraform in a healthcare setting.
- Company: Join a critical NHS programme with a focus on cloud technology.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible work arrangements, and impactful projects.
- Other info: Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment until November 2026.
- Why this job: Make a difference in healthcare by enhancing cloud infrastructure and compliance.
- Qualifications: Strong Terraform and AWS skills, plus NHS experience required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Leeds (1 day per month on-site)
Rate: 650 per day Inside IR35
Contract Length: Until November 2026
Overview
We are looking for an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to join a critical NHS programme on a contract basis. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, leading the migration from Puppet to a fully Terraform-driven platform across a complex, regulated healthcare environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool
- Lead the transition away from Puppet toward Terraform-based configuration management
- Write and maintain Ansible playbooks for configuration, patching, and deployment tasks
- Manage and support Linux-based server environments across the platform
- Ensure infrastructure is secure, scalable, and aligned with NHS standards and compliance requirements
- Collaborate with DevOps, security, and application teams to deliver reliable cloud environments
- Support incident resolution and platform troubleshooting as required
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and platform engineering best practices
Key Requirements
- Strong, hands‑on Terraform experience (modules, state management, remote backends)
- AWS expertise across core services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch
- Linux system administration in an enterprise environment (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
- Ansible: writing and managing playbooks for configuration and deployment
- Demonstrable NHS experience: familiarity with NHS Digital standards, governance, or HSCN environments. Candidates without direct NHS experience will not be considered
Desirable
- Puppet experience: prior exposure is advantageous given the active migration away from it
- Experience within public sector or regulated cloud environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
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