Senior Developer - Platform Engineer - £395p/d Inside IR35 -West Yorkshire
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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.
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- Location:
- Gb
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT;IT