DevX Platform Engineer: AI-Native, Self-Service Pipelines

Aflac Northern Ireland; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Aflac Northern Ireland's Developer Experience (DevX) team is building a scalable AI-native platform to accelerate software delivery. This role covers the full stack, from UI to infrastructure, delivering self-service features and automated controls that empower product teams and engineers across the organisation.

You'll work with Java 21 / Spring Boot, TypeScript, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker and Kubernetes, shaping pipelines, templates and integrations while applying security best practices and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of commercial software engineering, delivering features end to end.
• Strong skills in Java (Spring Boot) or TypeScript, and confidence working in other languages.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices and cloud-native design patterns.
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure DevOps preferred).
• Working knowledge of Docker and at least one cloud platform (AWS preferred).
• Understanding of DevSecOps and building security into delivery pipelines.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants or agents, or a strong drive to work that way, with the judgement to review and own what they produce.

Responsibilities

• Delivering self-service platform features end to end, from spec to production, with AI agents at each step and across every layer of the platform.
• Backend: Java 21 / Spring Boot services integrating with GitHub, Azure DevOps, Active Directory, ServiceNow, CyberArk, Cloudsmith, Snyk and SonarQube
• Frontend: the DevX portal (Angular) and documentation site (MkDocs)
• Golden paths: Azure DevOps pipeline templates, component templates and TypeScript pipeline extensions
• Compliance: policy-as-code (OPA / Rego) for automated change-management checks
• Infrastructure: IaC, Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, RDS PostgreSQL and the platform's own CI/CD
• Writing unit tests, automated functional tests and post-deployment checks as part of every change
• Building and improving the agent skills, steering and knowledge bases that our AI-native delivery depends on
• Solving integration and reliability problems with a focus on blast radius, observability and safe rollout
• Supporting the capabilities we build

Skills

Java Spring Boot

TypeScript

REST APIs

CI/CD

Cloud-native design

DevSecOps

AI coding assistants

Communication

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/STEM

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Snyk

SonarQube

Cloudsmith

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

Job description

Aflac Northern Ireland's Developer Experience (DevX) team is building a scalable AI-native platform to accelerate software delivery. This role covers the full stack, from UI to infrastructure, delivering self-service features and automated controls that empower product teams and engineers across the organisation.

You'll work with Java 21 / Spring Boot, TypeScript, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker and Kubernetes, shaping pipelines, templates and integrations while applying security best practices and