Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS): Leading the modernization, scalability, and reliability of infrastructure across development and production environments with an accent on AWS migration and IaC. Focus on designing resilient cloud-native architectures, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing system observability.

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom (In-person interview may be required)

Company

A leading media and entertainment business operating iconic brands like CNBC, USA Network, and GolfNow.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable and secure infrastructure within AWS.
• Lead migration of legacy customer-hosted systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Modernize CI/CD practices to enable rapid and safe service delivery across environments.
• Improve operational visibility through monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards and design reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering with a cloud focus.
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and distributed architectures.
• Strong expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience operating containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) in production.

Nice to have

• Experience managing Java application environments and JVM tuning.
• Proficiency with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Knowledge of Cloudflare for DNS, security, and CDN layers.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL in production environments.
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, or ELK.