AWS Platform Engineer – SC Cleared

Company: Whitehall Resources
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Location: London
Job Description:

Whitehall Resources currently require an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to work with a key client.

Please note this role falls INSIDE IR35 and requires SC Clearance

Required Skills

  • Ansible
  • Running and working with Java applications, JVMs, processes etc.
  • Nginx (primarily as a proxy)
  • Performance management (CPU/disk/memory sizing, etc)
  • Knowledge of OpenVPN, SSH and of client/server configuration.
  • EC2 instances, ASGs, Load Balancers, Target Groups
  • Mutli-account operations (assuming roles, working with multiple accounts)
  • Secrets Manager
  • Systems Manager
  • Terraform/OpenTofu
  • Networking VPC Peering, Routing
  • Exposure to AWS Organisations and Service Control Policies
  • Able to implement security at every layer of a system stack, understanding what is likely to be an “acceptable level of security”, depending on the situation
  • Able to work with security specialists to achieve the aims and requirements of the project

Optional Skills

  • Architecting systems to be low-overhead, low complexity and minimum tech-debt
  • Working in secure, governance/assurance-lead organisations
  • Microsoft technologies such as SSO and Sharepoint
  • Some level of “tech support” type skills
  • AWS Command line (awscli) and/or Boto3
  • Collaborative writing and reviews of documentation (GFLM and Confluence)

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Posted: July 10th, 2026