Senior Platform Engineer: AWS & Cloud Automation

Deloitte (UK); Alabama; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead AWS platform engineering for cloud solutions and transformation programmes. You will own significant technical work packages, shape design decisions, and promote engineering best practices across platform, automation, and cloud infrastructure.

Based in Belfast with hybrid working, you will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with architects and client teams, evaluate new AWS services, and help deliver secure, scalable platforms that meet

Qualifications

• Strong AWS platform engineering experience delivering cloud solutions and transformation programmes.
• Ability to design and implement Infrastructure as Code, automation tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading technical work packages and promoting engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS platforms, infrastructure and cloud-native solutions.
• Lead the delivery of technical work packages and platform engineering activities.
• Translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design and implement IaC, automation tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply AWS best practices across security, reliability, scalability and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Support architecture, design and technical assurance activities.
• Identify technical risks and support mitigation activities.
• Drive engineering quality through peer reviews, testing practices and documentation.
• Provide technical leadership within workstreams and develop expertise in platform engineering domains.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and client stakeholders to solve challenges.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to reusable assets, engineering standards and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging AWS services to support innovation and delivery excellence.

Skills

AWS

Platform engineering

DevOps

Automation

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security

Reliability

Scalability

Operational excellence

Mentoring

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Deloitte is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead AWS platform engineering for cloud solutions and transformation programmes. You will own significant technical work packages, shape design decisions, and promote engineering best practices across platform, automation, and cloud infrastructure.

Based in Belfast with hybrid working, you will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with architects and client teams, evaluate new AWS services, and help deliver secure, scalable platforms that meet