Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer | Belfast | Hybrid | Up to £70,000

We are working with a globally recognised media and technology organisation to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer into their Belfast engineering team.

This is a hands-on senior role sitting at the heart of a live re-platforming project, migrating a legacy application into AWS and modernising it for cloud-native best practices. You will work alongside an experienced senior engineer to drive this forward, with real ownership and influence over architecture decisions, not a ticket-by-ticket delivery role.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead infrastructure improvements, and help shape the DevOps practice across the organisation. If you want genuine end-to-end ownership of a production environment and the chance to leave a real technical mark on a meaningful project, this is a strong opportunity to do that.

What you will be doing:

Designing and implementing robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS

Driving the migration of legacy systems into cloud-native architectures

Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or comparable tooling

Improving system reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency across environments

Modernising CI/CD practices to enable safe, rapid delivery across multiple environments

Supporting incident response and improving operational visibility through monitoring, logging, and tracing

Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to engineering standards and design reviews

What we are looking for:

Deep, broad AWS experience across the full ecosystem, not siloed knowledge of individual services

Strong Linux fundamentals, considered essential for this role

Strong networking knowledge and an understanding of distributed architectures

A track record of owning and running production environments end to end

Experience with containerised workloads in production using Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes

Proficiency in Terraform or a comparable infrastructure-as-code tool

Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, Go, or similar

Useful but not essential:

Experience with Ansible, Cloudflare, PostgreSQL, or MySQL in production

Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, or ELK

Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architectures

Experience leading or contributing to cloud migration projects

The details:

Location: Belfast

Working pattern: Hybrid, with core office days on Monday and Thursday

* Benefits include private medical and pension matching