AWS Architect

WRK digital; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech consultancy is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer for a contract role focused on migrating an AI startup's core platform from Azure to AWS. This hands-on position involves designing AWS infrastructure, establishing modern CI/CD practices, and overseeing a critical cloud migration. Essential skills include strong expertise in Terraform and AWS services, as well as experience with CI/CD workflows and database migrations. The position is remote and offers a competitive rate of £600 per day for an initial 3-month contract.

Qualifications

• Strong infrastructure-as-code expertise across AWS using Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Core Services like ECS, RDS, and CloudWatch.
• Proven ability to implement sophisticated CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of applications and databases from Azure to AWS.
• Design and manage AWS infrastructure.
• Establish CI/CD practices for automated testing.

Skills

Terraform expertise

AWS Core Services knowledge

CI / CD workflow proficiency

Database Migration experience

Understanding of ephemeral environments

Azure to AWS Migration familiarity

Node.js & Postgres knowledge

Job description

🚀 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.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 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, CloudWatch.
• 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.

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