AWS Solutions Architect
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an AWS Platform Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £500-£550/day (Outside IR35). This role will be hybrid working with 6 days on site per month, with some flexibility around project work.
Essential Skills:
– Minimum 3 years’ experience in a senior AWS platform engineering or cloud infrastructure role.
– Proven ability to translate cloud architecture designs into engineered solutions, including infrastructure, security, and CI/CD automation.
– Expert-level hands-on experience with AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS (particularly Oracle), CloudWatch, and Systems Manager.
– Demonstrable experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly using Terraform to build reusable modules, enforce guardrails, and support multi-environment deployments.
– Strong working knowledge of AWS-native CI/CD services such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline, or equivalent tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
– Experience operating RHEL and Windows workloads in AWS, including system hardening, patch management, and automation using Systems Manager.
– Solid understanding of AWS security services, including IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Config, and VPC security controls.
– Experience implementing platform-level monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, Alarms, and integration with centralised dashboards or SIEM tooling.
– Familiarity with tagging strategies, cost allocation, and FinOps-aware engineering to support operational governance.
– Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex deployment and runtime issues, particularly within hybrid environments or multi-account AWS setups.
– Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working alongside traditional infrastructure teams and supporting knowledge transfer and uplift.
Desirable Skills:
– Understanding of Public sector challenges and constraints
– Understanding of modern software development frameworks
– Understanding of testing approach and tooling for a cloud hosted infrastructure
– Understanding of SOAP and REST APIs, API Gateways & API Management
– AWS Active Directory
– AWS Certifications
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Essential Skills:
– Minimum 3 years’ experience in a senior AWS platform engineering or cloud infrastructure role.
– Proven ability to translate cloud architecture designs into engineered solutions, including infrastructure, security, and CI/CD automation.
– Expert-level hands-on experience with AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS (particularly Oracle), CloudWatch, and Systems Manager.
– Demonstrable experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly using Terraform to build reusable modules, enforce guardrails, and support multi-environment deployments.
– Strong working knowledge of AWS-native CI/CD services such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline, or equivalent tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
– Experience operating RHEL and Windows workloads in AWS, including system hardening, patch management, and automation using Systems Manager.
– Solid understanding of AWS security services, including IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Config, and VPC security controls.
– Experience implementing platform-level monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, Alarms, and integration with centralised dashboards or SIEM tooling.
– Familiarity with tagging strategies, cost allocation, and FinOps-aware engineering to support operational governance.
– Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex deployment and runtime issues, particularly within hybrid environments or multi-account AWS setups.
– Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working alongside traditional infrastructure teams and supporting knowledge transfer and uplift.
Desirable Skills:
– Understanding of Public sector challenges and constraints
– Understanding of modern software development frameworks
– Understanding of testing approach and tooling for a cloud hosted infrastructure
– Understanding of SOAP and REST APIs, API Gateways & API Management
– AWS Active Directory
– AWS Certifications
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
