AWS Platform Engineer

Diana Duggan UK Limited; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Umbrella payroll

Hybrid work (Belfast)

Job summary

Diana Duggan UK Limited is seeking an AWS Platform Engineer to join our Technology & Transformation team in Belfast on a hybrid basis. You will design and deliver cloud platform solutions using AWS with a focus on reliability, scale, and cost efficiency.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, and IaC tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK, plus CI/CD pipelines and monitoring. Start ASAP on a 6-month contract with umbrella payroll.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, building and maintaining cloud platforms, especially AWS.
• Proficient in IaC and CI/CD tooling to deliver scalable, reliable services.
• Strong understanding of networking, security and identity management in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Solid experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering with compute, storage, networking.
• Design, build and maintain cloud-based platforms focusing on AWS services.
• Delivery across EC2, EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and App Runner/Fargate.
• Implement IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK.
• Design and automate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CodePipeline or CodeBuild.
• Monitor, log and alert using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch and X-Ray.

Skills

AWS Platform Engineer

Cloud computing

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Networking

Monitoring

SRE principles

Python/Bash/Go

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

AWS CodePipeline

CodeBuild

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

CloudWatch

AWS X-Ray

Git

Job description

One of the big four are seeking an AWS Platform Engineer to join their team within Technology & Transformation. The team is focused on the technical delivery of new solutions that solve complex challenges for clients. You will help drive innovation and technology forward, collaborating with cross-functional teams and using cutting-edge tools.

We are looking for an experienced cloud platform engineer with in-depth knowledge of engineering and architectural principles to design and build innovative platform solutions.

• Role: AWS Platform Engineer - Technology & Transformation
• Day rate: £550 - 650 per day
• Pay framework: Umbrella Company
• Start date: ASAP
• Contract duration: 6 months initially (with scope to extend)
• Location: Belfast. (hybrid role)

Key Accountabilities:

• Solid and demonstrable experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering or architecture, with a deep working knowledge of compute, storage, networking, and cloud management principles applied in professional delivery contexts.
• A track record of designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based platforms and infrastructure, with a focus on AWS.
• Hands on experience with AWS, including practical delivery across core services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Lambda, and AWS App Runner or AWS Fargate.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform (including AWS), AWS CloudFormation, or the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
• Background in CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, or similar.
• Understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments, including AWS-specific best practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimise workloads for performance, cost, and reliability on AWS.

Desirable experience and skills:

• Professional or specialty level AWS certification,
• Knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles and practices.
• Hands on experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling, particularly Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
• Working knowledge of AI and ML services on AWS, with a clear understanding of how platforms such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Q Business can be positioned to drive measurable client outcomes.
• Experience with AWS billing, cost management, and optimisation, including services such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports.
• Exposure to data engineering or analytics workloads on AWS, such as AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, or Amazon SQS, with an ability to contribute meaningfully to data-driven client programmes alongside specialist data teams.