Lead AWS Platform Engineer

• 02/10/25
• North West, Leeds
• £500 - 600 per day
• Contract
• Cloud Infrastructure, SRE & DevOps
• Full time

Lead AWS Platform Engineer (Contract - Inside IR35)

Location: Hybrid - Leeds (onsite once every 2 weeks)

Overview

Experienced Lead AWS Platform Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and managing Databricks workspaces on AWS. This role is pivotal in enabling secure, scalable, and efficient data platforms to support analytics, research, and operational insights in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of AWS-based Databricks workspaces.
• Ensure platform security, governance, and compliance with UK data protection standards (e.g. GDPR, DSP Toolkit).
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to enable smooth onboarding and efficient use of Databricks.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code best practices (Terraform/CloudFormation) for consistent deployments.
• Manage networking, authentication, and RBAC across environments.
• Drive monitoring, performance optimisation, and cost management for Databricks and AWS services.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to setting engineering standards and best practice.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services (VPC, IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.).
• Proven knowledge of data security, governance, and compliance frameworks in regulated settings.
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools (Terraform).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in setting up and managing Databricks workspaces in enterprise or regulated environments.
• Background in healthcare or public sector organisations.
• Understanding of data lakes and analytics workloads.
• Knowledge of UK digital and security standards.