AWS Platform Engineer| 6 months | Predominantly Remote (Edinburgh based)
Day Rate - up to £560
Duration - 12 month
Harvey Nash's client is recruiting for an AWS Platform Engineer for an initial duration of 12 months, with the possibility to extend. Occasional office attendance required.
Main Responsibilities
Work alongside Product Teams to ensure the good practices developing, testing, deploying and supporting products on AWS.
Design, build and support services for software delivery with a focus on the client's AWS Platform.
Develop, build and support people to use libraries (usually CDK constructs) and vended services that wrap and present platform features.
Improve security of Lambda functions
Deprecation of on-prem products in favour of cloud based alternatives (Imperva WAF, RabbitMQ, Postgres, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB, Jenkins)
Ensure platform meets client governance and security requirements.
Support client core platforms (container platform, monitoring, telemetry).
Key Skills
Designing and building platforms in AWS.
AWS Serverless technologies.
CI/CD methodology and native AWS CI/CD tooling.
Defining infrastructure and processes as code.
Working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks
AWS Shield Advanced, WAFv2, AWS Firewall Manager
AWS Lambda, CDK, S3, Cloud Formation, API Gateway, EC2, AMIs
GuardDuty, Transit Gateway, AWS Config, Route53, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Codepipeline, CodeArtifact,
Containerised platforms, Openshift, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate.
Python, Bash, Ansible, Groovy
Git, Artifactory, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana
AWSLinux, RHel, Ubuntu,
Experience with AWS Security and Networks.
Desirable Skills & Experience
Commercial experience of the following:
Enterprise scale software builds and integration
Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards
Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practice
Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
Prisma Cloud
OpenShift
Please note that for this role you must have, or be happy to apply for, a Basic Disclosure Scotland. To apply, please send your CV using the link.
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