Technology Lead - Cloud Engineer - Belfast, Northern Ireland

Job summary

Builds and operates foundational public cloud infrastructure for application and data hosting in a hybrid multi-cloud environment, primarily using AWS and Google Cloud. The role designs secure, resilient platforms; automates infrastructure with Terraform and other IaC tools; manages Docker and Kubernetes deployments; and integrates cloud services into CI/CD pipelines. It also owns platform reliability, monitoring, incident response, security, and operational documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or SRE at mid-level or senior capacity.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform, CloudFormation, or Deployment Manager.
• Programming experience with Python and Go.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Harness, Tekton, and Jenkins.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Terratest, Cucumber, Pytest-BDD, AWS Fault Injection Simulator, or Chaos Mesh.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of cloud networking, security practices, and IAM.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK stack, CloudWatch, or Stackdriver.
• Commitment to SRE principles and operational ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS and GCP infrastructure for compute, storage, networking, security, and identity management.
• Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and deployment blueprints.
• Automate cloud resource provisioning, configuration, and management using scripts and tools.
• Implement and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes platforms, including Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of cloud platforms and services.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging, and participate in on-call incident response.
• Apply cloud security practices and configure IAM, network security groups, firewalls, and encryption.
• Integrate infrastructure provisioning and management into CI/CD pipelines with development teams.
• Maintain cloud architecture, configuration, and operational documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers and share technical knowledge.

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Relocation