La Fosse
Platform Engineer
England
£700 – £800/day
Posted about 20 hours ago
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Senior Platform Automation Engineer
Rate: £700-£800 per day Inside IR35 Location: East of England - 2 days onsite per week
What you will do
- Develop and improve reusable Terraform modules, AWS environment repositories, Ansible automation, and Python/Go platform services.
- Strengthen CI/CD pipelines for Terraform validation, automated testing, container builds, security checks, and controlled deployments.
- Productionise fully self-service workflows for infrastructure requests, approvals, audit trails, and operational actions so no human interaction is required.
- Review platform changes for security, reliability, least privilege, state impact, rollback risk, and long-term maintainability.
- Work across multiple repositories and platform areas, depending on delivery priorities, with a focus on practical outcomes and safe production change.
- Ensure changes follow compliance, change control, audit, and least-privilege requirements.
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What you will bring
- Deep Terraform and AWS platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Strong understanding of IAM, networking, EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, Route53, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, VPC endpoints, and cross-account AWS patterns.
- Confidence working in brownfield Terraform estates, including reusable modules, remote state, provider configuration, moved blocks, plan review, and safe incremental change.
- Practical automation skills using Python, Go, TypeScript or similar languages.
- Hands-on GitLab CI, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault, secure secret handling, and least-privilege automation experience.
- Ability to solve sophisticated platform issues and communicate clearly across engineering, security, and operations teams.
- Strong collaboration skills, with experience working effectively across cross-project teams and with engineers at all levels, from junior developers through to senior technical leads and architects.
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Useful additional experience
- Internal developer platforms (for example, Backstage), or self-service infrastructure workflows.
- Kubernetes authentication, policy-based automation, Spacelift, or Terraform orchestration platforms.
- Hybrid/on-prem infrastructure such as vSphere, IPAM/DDI, DNS, firewall automation, network/security baselines, or storage integration.
- AI-assisted workflows, MCP/tool-calling systems, or automation agents.
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