Senior Developer - Platform Engineer - £395p/d Inside IR35
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Senior Developer - Platform Engineering Contract | Inside IR35 | £395 per day 6 months+ | UK Wide with travel to Leeds once per fortnight
We are recruiting for a Senior Developer/Platform Engineer to join a team supporting a nationally critical healthcare integration and messaging platform. This is a high-impact contract role working on systems that require strong resilience, security, and engineering discipline.
This role would suit someone with a strong Python development background who is equally comfortable working across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and secure software delivery.
The opportunity You will help maintain and improve a complex cloud-based platform that supports secure, high-availability data exchange across a large-scale environment. The work will involve improving code quality, supporting deployment standards, strengthening platform engineering practices, and contributing to the reliability and security of live services.
What we're looking for
- Strong experience as a Senior Python Developer
- Good exposure to cloud-native development, ideally AWS
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tooling
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring tooling
- Strong understanding of the Secure Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience developing secure, reliable software in complex environments
- Ability to support incident investigation and problem resolution
- Experience working closely with product or engineering teams as a technical SME
- Understanding of shift-left security practices, including static and dynamic analysis
Additional useful experience
- Promoting good platform and software engineering practices
- Building reusable infrastructure and pipeline components
- Understanding how platform teams can improve delivery across wider engineering functions
Important details
- Inside IR35
- £395 per day
- 6 months initial contract, with potential to extend
- Travel to Leeds once every fortnight
- You must be willing to join an on-call rota once fully up to speed
- Candidates must be SC eligible
- You must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years
This is a strong opportunity to contribute to a platform that plays an important role in supporting essential services, while working in an environment that values secure engineering, reliability, and technical quality.
Requirements
- Strong experience as a Senior Python Developer
- Good exposure to cloud-native development, ideally AWS
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tooling
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring tooling
- Strong understanding of the Secure Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience developing secure, reliable software in complex environments
- Ability to support incident investigation and problem resolution
- Experience working closely with product or engineering teams as a technical SME
- Understanding of shift-left security practices, including static and dynamic analysis
Additional useful experience
- Promoting good platform and software engineering practices
- Building reusable infrastructure and pipeline components
- Understanding how platform teams can improve delivery across wider engineering functions, * You must be willing to join an on-call rota once fully up to speed
- Candidates must be SC eligible
- You must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years
This is a strong opportunity to contribute to a platform that plays an important role in supporting essential services, while working in an environment that values secure engineering, reliability, and technical quality.
