Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35 £500/day Remote UK 6 months+ Bright Purple are partnering with a global client to hire aPlatform Engineerfor a high-impact infrastructure improvement programme. You'll help assess and align an AWS platform with internal policies, and lead a criticalCI/CD migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions. Responsibilities:

Conduct platform risk assessment: IAM, SSL expiry, EC2 security groups, backups, monitoring Improve availability acrossRDS, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway Migrate CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions Support applications into tools likeSentry, Dependency Track, Bug Bounty, DAST Define cross-region DR plans using Terraform CDK Collaborate with dev teams on Java-based apps and AWS operational support Triage infrastructure alerts and contribute to platform reliability

Essential Skills:

3+ years of AWS experience (EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, ACM, ECS, CloudWatch) Solid CI/CD knowledge -hands-on migration between Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions Strong Infrastructure-as-Code:Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation Familiarity with Java applications (e.g. adding Sentry SDKs)

Bonus:

Experience with Kong API Gateway

Start ASAP Outside IR35 Fully Remote (UK) Apply now