Contract AWS Platform Engineer (Inside IR35)

AWS Platform Engineer (Inside IR35 Contract)

Location: Leeds, 2 days per week
Contract: 3 months initially, with a good chance of extension
Rate: Up to £530 per day, inside IR35

The Opportunity

We're working with a software engineering consultancy that specialises in helping organisations build and scale high-quality technology platforms.

You'll be working on an exciting project with a medical technology organisation, supporting the continued development and scaling of their technology platform as they embark on a significant AI initiative.

We're looking for an experienced AWS Platform Engineer who can operate across both the technical and stakeholder sides of the project.

This is a hands-on, cross-functional role where you'll be expected to understand technical challenges, identify gaps and work with different teams to find practical solutions.

What You'll Be Doing

• Scale and evolve an AWS-based platform to support wider organisational adoption.
• Work hands-on across platform engineering and cloud operations.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements and pain points.
• Identify gaps across platforms, processes and ways of working and recommend improvements.
• Act as a bridge between different technical and operational teams.
• Contribute to platform strategy, continuous improvement and operational processes.
• Help turn complex requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience as an AWS Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar.
• Strong hands-on AWS and cloud platform engineering experience.
• Experience across platform operations, infrastructure or internal/developer platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with requirements gathering, gap analysis, process improvement or business-analysis-adjacent activities.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and bringing different teams together.
• A pragmatic, hands-on approach with the ability to operate in a complex environment.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.