Senior Developer - Platform Engineer - £395p/d Inside IR35 -West Yorkshire
19 hours ago
Bradford
Senior Developer – Platform Engineering Have you got what it takes to succeed The following information should be read carefully by all candidates. 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 xrnqpay 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.