Senior Platform Engineer (AWS)

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (Belfast)

Salary up to £85k

Benefits package

Technical direction

Collaborative culture

Job summary

MCS Group is delighted to be working with a technology-led organisation that is investing heavily in its cloud platform and is looking to appoint a Senior Platform Engineer to its growing engineering team. This is an opportunity to join a business that's modernising its platform, improving developer experience and building scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using the latest AWS technologies.

You’ll be responsible for designing and evolving AWS cloud infrastructure, driving ECS and Docker,

Qualifications

• Senior level experience with AWS, Terraform, ECS and Docker.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Driving container platforms using AWS ECS and Docker.
• Building Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Developing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Enhancing observability with Datadog.
• Creating self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams.
• Optimising cloud performance, resilience and cost.

Skills

Python scripting

Tools

AWS

Terraform

ECS

Docker

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

MCS Group is delighted to be working with a technology-led organisation that is investing heavily in its cloud platform and is looking to appoint a Senior Platform Engineer to its growing engineering team.

This is an opportunity to join a business that's modernising its platform, improving developer experience and building scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using the latest AWS technologies.

You’ll be responsible for...

• Designing and evolving AWS cloud infrastructure
• Driving container platforms using AWS ECS and Docker
• Building Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Developing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Enhancing observability through Datadog
• Creating self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams
• Optimising cloud performance, resilience and cost

You’ll have senior level experience with...

• AWS
• Terraform
• ECS and Docker
• GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling
• Datadog or another enterprise observability platform
• Python or Bash scripting

What’s on offer...

• Hybrid working (2 days per week in the Belfast office)
• Salary up to £85,000
• Excellent benefits package
• The opportunity to influence technical direction and platform strategy
• A collaborative engineering culture with modern cloud technologies

This is a genuinely senior engineering position suited to someone who enjoys building platforms rather than simply maintaining infrastructure.

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