Senior Platform Engineer - Lead Scalable Digital Services

Kainos; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos in Belfast is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead design of significant components of a modern digital service platform, including its automation, build, deployment and support. It is a fast-paced role where you will learn new technologies and grow alongside talented colleagues.

You will collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to deliver high-quality software, drive automation, and uphold DevOps practices across live services.

Qualifications

• Strong team skills and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience designing, building, testing, automating and supporting modern digital service platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of significant components of a modern digital service platform.
• Ensure scalable, secure, reliable, and performant services.
• Coach and mentor junior team members in DevOps practices and tooling.
• Drive modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production.
• Collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities.

Skills

Team collaboration

Verbal & written communication

Automation

AWS

CI/CD

Git

Problem solving

DevOps culture

Education

Third level degree or equivalent

Azure cloud certification

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Kainos in Belfast is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead design of significant components of a modern digital service platform, including its automation, build, deployment and support. It is a fast-paced role where you will learn new technologies and grow alongside talented colleagues.

You will collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to deliver high-quality software, drive automation, and uphold DevOps practices across live services.