Platform Engineer - Leeds/Remote - £450+ p/d Inside IR35

Senior Python Developer with Platform Engineering Exposure
Rate: £450 per day Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months initially
Start: ASAP
Location: Mostly remote, with travel to Leeds around once per month
Clearance: SC clearance required or must be eligible
On-call: Required once up to speed, currently 1 in 6 weeks

We are looking for a Senior Python Developer with strong exposure to AWS, Terraform, CI/CD and secure software delivery to support a nationally critical healthcare integration and messaging platform.

The role is primarily hands-on Python development, with responsibility for contributing to cloud-native platform work, improving CI/CD processes, supporting code quality gates, and helping ensure deployments meet security, technical and governance standards.

Key Skills
Strong Python application development experience
AWS or wider public cloud experience
Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling
Secure SDLC and secure coding experience
Observability, monitoring or logging tools
Experience supporting complex production systems or incident investigations

Responsibilities
Develop secure, maintainable Python code
Support cloud-native application development
Improve CI/CD pipelines and code quality processes
Work with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
Support observability, monitoring and incident investigation
Work with product teams on cloud and platform best practice
Participate in the on-call rota once fully onboarded

Nice to Have
Platform engineering or DevOps team experience
Experience building reusable IaC components or CI jobs
Experience using static or dynamic security analysis tools

This is a 6-month contract paying £450 per day Inside IR35, mostly remote with travel to Leeds around once per month.