Cyber Platform Engineer - Scale & Observability

Jobtailor; Belfast; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JobTailor in Belfast is seeking a senior engineering leader to design, deliver and operate production-grade capabilities that power cyber operations at scale. You will build reliable, secure and observable services, tools, platforms, or data pipelines aligned to shared engineering standards.

You will own the service lifecycle, drive architectural decisions with stakeholders, and push platform maturity through automation and standardization.

Qualifications

• Experience in building scalable software platforms and services.
• Experience leading engineering teams or technical delivery in product-based environments.
• Strong focus on reliability, observability, security, and maintainability.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native patterns and platform design.
• Experience building reusable services or data capabilities used by multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, delivery, and operation of production-grade engineering capabilities that support cyber operations at scale.
• Build reliable, secure, and observable services, tools, platforms, or data pipelines aligned to shared engineering standards.
• Own service and platform lifecycle, including reliability and operational readiness.
• Partner with product, platform, and engineering stakeholders to shape architecture and delivery sequencing.
• Drive platform maturity through automation, reuse, standardization, and operational discipline.
• Coach and develop engineers while building high-performing teams with systems thinking.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Automation

Cloud-native

Scalable design

Observability

Reliability

Integration patterns

Job description

JobTailor in Belfast is seeking a senior engineering leader to design, deliver and operate production-grade capabilities that power cyber operations at scale. You will build reliable, secure and observable services, tools, platforms, or data pipelines aligned to shared engineering standards.

You will own the service lifecycle, drive architectural decisions with stakeholders, and push platform maturity through automation and standardization.