AWS Platform Engineer: Cloud & IaC Innovator

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Diana Duggan is seeking an AWS Platform Engineer for a Belfast hybrid role. The contract is 6 months with extension potential, paying £550–£650 per day via Umbrella Company. Start ASAP.

You will design and build cloud-based platform solutions on AWS, with a focus on scalable, secure infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS experience, IaC proficiency, CI/CD expertise, and strong knowledge of networking, security and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Solid and demonstrable experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering or architecture.
• Deep working knowledge of compute, storage, networking, and cloud management principles.
• Hands on experience with AWS including EC2, EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and App Runner/Fargate.
• Proficient in IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Background in CI/CD pipeline design and automation (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
• Understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging/alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, X-Ray).
• Experience with Git and scripting (Python, Bash, Go).
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimise workloads for performance, cost, and reliability on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Solid and demonstrable experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering or architecture.
• Design, build and maintain cloud-based platforms with focus on AWS.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver platform solutions.

Skills

IaC experience

CI/CD design

Networking & security in cloud

Monitoring & logging

SRE principles

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

CodePipeline/CodeBuild

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

ELK stack

Git

Job description

Diana Duggan is seeking an AWS Platform Engineer for a Belfast hybrid role. The contract is 6 months with extension potential, paying £550–£650 per day via Umbrella Company. Start ASAP.

You will design and build cloud-based platform solutions on AWS, with a focus on scalable, secure infrastructure. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS experience, IaC proficiency, CI/CD expertise, and strong knowledge of networking, security and monitoring.