Principal Platform Engineer - AI-Driven DevOps & IDP Lead

Black Duck Software; Belfast; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software security company located in Northern Ireland is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the development of an Internal Developer Platform to enhance DevOps operations. The successful candidate will have a strong background in cloud architecture and modern platform technologies. Responsibilities include building AI-driven solutions and driving platform reliability initiatives. Competitive compensation offered for this full-time position.

Qualifications

• 8 years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Architecture roles.
• Expert-level experience in cloud architecture across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Strong programming skills in Go or Python.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale the Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
• Build AI-powered observability solutions for distributed environments.
• Lead platform reliability initiatives and automate rollbacks.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Kubernetes

Python

Go

GitOps

AI/ML tooling

Education

BS / MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

A leading software security company located in Northern Ireland is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the development of an Internal Developer Platform to enhance DevOps operations. The successful candidate will have a strong background in cloud architecture and modern platform technologies. Responsibilities include building AI-driven solutions and driving platform reliability initiatives. Competitive compensation offered for this full-time position.