AWS Data Platform Engineer (Ref: 197468)

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive day rate

Development budget

Hybrid work pattern

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy is helping a freight and logistics client recruit an AWS platform engineer for a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will design, deliver and operate an AWS data platform, owning IaC, pipelines and platform tooling to secure, reliable and cost-efficient data flows.

Requirements include hands-on AWS experience, Terraform or CDK, CI/CD pipelines, lakehouse concepts, multi-account setups and FinOps awareness. Hybrid Nottingham.

Qualifications

• Proven platform engineering or DevOps experience for data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and IaC tools such as Terraform or CDK.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling and pipeline development.
• Understanding of lakehouse concepts, data ingestion patterns and serving architectures.
• Strong security, observability and operational excellence mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable AWS infrastructure for data workloads using IaC.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform and data product deployments.
• Implement lakehouse and serving layer patterns to support analytics and ML workloads.
• Apply security, governance and compliance controls across the platform.
• Monitor platform health and lead performance tuning and incident response.
• Manage platform costs and optimisation initiatives (FinOps).
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to define platform APIs and operational playbooks.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Data platform experience

SQL scripting

Observability

Security mindset

Tools

Terraform

CDK

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About Us

Our client develops cloud-native software for freight, transport and logistics operators to optimise fleet utilisation, route planning and operational workflows. The organisation combines high-frequency operational telemetry with enterprise analytics to deliver decisioning, forecasting and automation capabilities that reduce cost per mile and improve on-time performance.

Job Description

This 12-month fixed-term contract focuses on designing, delivering and operating an AWS data platform that underpins analytics, machine learning and operational reporting. The role requires ownership of infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines and platform tooling to ensure secure, reliable, and cost-effective data flows from ingestion through to serving layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable AWS infrastructure for data workloads using IaC.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform and data product deployments.
• Implement lakehouse and serving layer patterns to support analytics and ML workloads.
• Apply security, governance and compliance controls across the platform.
• Monitor platform health and lead performance tuning and incident response.
• Manage platform costs and optimisation initiatives (FinOps).
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to define platform APIs and operational playbooks.

Requirements

• Proven experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering or DevOps for data platforms.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and IaC tools such as Terraform or CDK.
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD tooling and pipeline development.
• Understanding of lakehouse concepts, data ingestion patterns and serving architectures.
• Strong security, observability and operational excellence mindset.
• Proficiency in SQL and scripting; systems thinking and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with multi-account AWS setups and FinOps is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive day rate aligned to experience for a 12-month fixed-term contract.
• Professional development budget and access to technical training resources.
• Flexible working pattern with a hybrid option based in Nottingham.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects affecting real-time logistics operations.

Other

This opportunity suits engineers who want to shape a mission-critical data platform that drives operational decisions in transport and logistics. Candidates with transferable experience in cloud platform engineering for data-intensive systems

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