Senior Platform Engineer – Contract

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Platform Engineer – AWS

One of our global financial services clients is continuing to invest heavily in its cloud platform capability, building secure, resilient, and highly scalable environments that support mission-critical digital products used worldwide.

This team is responsible for designing and operating modern cloud platforms that make it easier for engineering teams to build, deploy, and run applications at scale. The emphasis is on strong architectural standards, automation, and security embedded across the full delivery lifecycle.

As an AWS Platform Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping and evolving these cloud environments. You’ll work closely with application engineers, SREs, and security teams to deliver robust, well-architected platforms that meet strict availability, performance, and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll be doing

Designing and operating scalable AWS platform infrastructure to support business-critical workloads

Building and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation to reduce operational overhead

Partnering with engineering and security teams to embed observability, compliance, and secure delivery practices

Improving platform reliability by reducing toil and automating issue detection and response

Championing DevSecOps principles throughout the platform lifecycle

Contributing to architectures designed to withstand cloud-native failure scenarios

Providing technical guidance and mentorship across platform and delivery teams

Staying across emerging cloud technologies and recommending improvements where they add value

What our client is looking for

7+ years’ experience across platform engineering, SRE, or backend engineering roles

Strong hands-on experience designing and operating AWS environments in production, ideally within regulated industries

Deep knowledge of AWS security, networking, IAM, and governance

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows

Proficiency in a scripting or programming language (Python, Go, or Shell)

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