Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS, Terraform, DevOps

Brightwater Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwater Recruitment represents a well-established international financial services organisation seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and manage secure AWS infrastructure. You will implement IaC with Terraform, automate deployments, and collaborate with engineering, security and operations teams to uphold robust cloud practices.

This hybrid role involves 3 days in the office weekly in south Dublin, with a focus on scalable, cost-efficient cloud platforms and strong governance.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps or SRE.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on AWS experience.
• Strong experience designing and supporting production-grade cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM and governance.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace) and AWS monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment processes.
• Contribute to CI/CD and GitOps-based delivery practices.
• Design and implement secure cloud networking, including DNS, firewalls, load balancing and proxies.
• Support AWS identity, access management, security controls and governance.
• Help develop and maintain multi-account AWS environments and cloud landing zones.
• Work with engineering and security teams to ensure cloud solutions meet appropriate architectural and security standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve the scalability, reliability, security and cost efficiency of cloud environments.
• Contribute to the development of cloud engineering standards and best practices.

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes / EKS

AWS

Job description

Brightwater Recruitment represents a well-established international financial services organisation seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and manage secure AWS infrastructure. You will implement IaC with Terraform, automate deployments, and collaborate with engineering, security and operations teams to uphold robust cloud practices.

This hybrid role involves 3 days in the office weekly in south Dublin, with a focus on scalable, cost-efficient cloud platforms and strong governance.