Platform Engineer

Duration: contract to run until 31/10/2026

Location: London. Hybrid working with occasional travel

Rate: up to £552 p/d Umbrellainside IR35

Clearance required: Active SC Clearance. UK National

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.

AWS (Admin)

• 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

Security

• 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
• ServiceNow (self-hosted)
• 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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