AWS Architect

🚀 New Contract Opportunity – Lead Platform Engineer (AWS Migration) - £600pd Inside IR35

📍 Remote (UK-Based)

📅 Start Date :
Ideally 5th January

⏳ Duration : 3 months (initial)

WRK digital are delighted to be shortlisting for a contract AWS to drive the migration of a AI start-up core platform from Azure to AWS .

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role where you'll design the future foundation of their platform, establish modern CI / CD practices, and lead a business‑critical cloud migration.

• Leading the end-to-end migration of the client’s web application, API, and database from Azure to AWS.
• Designing and building AWS infrastructure using Terraform , covering compute, networking, security, Postgres, and application services.
• Implementing Bitbucket-based CI pipelines to build, test, and validate application code automatically.
• Creating CD pipelines with ephemeral environments that spin up dynamically on pull requests for isolated testing.
• Establishing robust production deployment workflows with approval gates and rollback mechanisms.
• Planning and executing the migration of the Azure-hosted database to AWS RDS Postgres , ensuring minimal downtime.
• Setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide full visibility across the new AWS environment.
• Applying AWS Well‑Architected principles to ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient from day one.

• Terraform :
  Strong infrastructure‑as‑code expertise across AWS (compute, networking, databases, IAM).
• AWS Core Services :
  Hands‑on experience with ECS / Fargate or EC2, RDS Postgres, VPC, ALB, Route 53, Cloud Watch.
• CI / CD :
  Proven ability to build sophisticated CI / CD workflows including ephemeral environments and approval stages (Bitbucket Pipelines or similar).
• Database Migration :
  Experience migrating to AWS RDS Postgres, including planning, dry‑runs, and cutovers with minimal disruption.
• Ephemeral Environments :
  Understanding of on‑demand environment provisioning for PR‑based automated testing.
• Azure to AWS Migration :
  Familiarity with Azure equivalents (VMs, Azure SQL / Postgres) and their AWS counterparts.
• Node.js & Postgres :
  Knowledge of hosting Node.js applications and Postgres databases in production environments.

For a confidential conversation around the next steps please DM, comment 👇 , or you can apply via the job ad in the comments for immediate consideration.

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