AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. You will develop IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK and work with React/TypeScript and Python applications.

You will containerize with Docker and Kubernetes, and build CI/CD pipelines while improving observability and security. This role focuses on scalable, secure platforms, incident response and governance, with opportunities to define cloud standards and automate

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience in production environments.
• Designing and operating cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK).
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS and S3.
• Experience supporting modern web applications built with React and TypeScript.
• Experience working with backend services developed in Python.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring and logging practices.
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices.
• Experience in consulting or client-facing environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Build and support scalable, secure and resilient application platforms.
• Work closely with engineers developing applications in React, TypeScript and Python.
• Support the deployment and operation of frontend and backend services.
• Design and manage containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and observability best practices.
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Apply cloud security best practices and governance controls.
• Contribute to platform automation and developer self-service capabilities.
• Help define cloud architecture standards and operational best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Communication skills

Education

AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Python

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. You will develop IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK and work with React/TypeScript and Python applications.

You will containerize with Docker and Kubernetes, and build CI/CD pipelines while improving observability and security. This role focuses on scalable, secure platforms, incident response and governance, with opportunities to define cloud standards and automate