AWS Data Platform Engineer (SECURITY-CLEARED)

Initial 6-month contract

£400–450 per day

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

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.

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

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.