AWS Data Platform Engineer (Security Cleared)

Contract

Initial 6-month contract

Day Rate

£400–450 per day

Security Clearance

Active SC clearance is essential. Unfortunately, SC eligibility alone cannot be considered. No visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Overview

Our client is a major technology and transformation services organisation delivering large-scale digital and data programmes within the UK public sector.

They are seeking an AWS Data Platform Engineer to support the development, integration, automation, and ongoing operation of secure cloud-based data platforms within a highly regulated government environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who combines strong AWS platform capability with modern data engineering experience and a solid understanding of DevOps, automation, and secure delivery practices.

The successful candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering and integration teams to build scalable, secure, and automated data platform solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, support, and optimise cloud-native data platform solutions within AWS
  

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
  

• Support data engineering workloads using Python, Apache Spark, Airflow, and Jupyter notebooks
  

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
  

• Deploy and manage containerised solutions using Docker
  

• Work closely with integration teams across complex government technology environments
  

• Implement and maintain security controls, scanning agents, and secure engineering practices
  

• Support platform reliability, automation, monitoring, and operational improvements
  

• Collaborate with architects, engineers, DevOps teams, and stakeholders across the programme
  

• Contribute to technical documentation, standards, and engineering best practice
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Active SC clearance
  

• Strong AWS engineering experience across cloud-native services
  

• Commercial experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation
  

• Strong Python development skills
  

• Experience with Apache Spark and large-scale data processing
  

• Experience with Apache Airflow workflows and orchestration
  

• Experience working with Jupyter notebooks
  

• Docker and containerisation experience
  

• Experience using GitLab and CI/CD pipelines
  

• Knowledge of secure engineering practices and security tooling/scanning
  

• Experience working within complex enterprise or government environments
  

• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills
  

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within UK central government environments
  

• Experience integrating with shared government platforms and integration services
  

• Exposure to platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps practices
  

• Experience working within agile delivery teams
  

• Knowledge of data governance and cloud security best practices
  

Candidate Profile

We are looking for pragmatic, delivery-focused engineers who are comfortable operating across both platform and data engineering domains. This role would suit someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges within large-scale cloud and data environments and who can work effectively within secure, highly regulated programmes.