DevOps Engineer
2 days ago
Belfast
DevOps Engineer – Belfast (Hybrid) An innovative, fast-growing cloud security organisation is expanding its engineering hub in Belfast. The team is building cutting-edge technology that gives global customers deep visibility, real-time protection, and end-to-end security across complex cloud environments. If you want to work with highly scalable systems, modern cloud platforms, and a team that genuinely values curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement, this is a chance to make a real impact. Day to day: You’ll play a key role in strengthening the cloud infrastructure, enabling secure, reliable, and high-performance services. Your work will span observability, security, cost-efficiency, and infrastructure automation. In this role, you will: • Build intuitive dashboards and metrics to enhance incident response and overall observability., • Create proactive alerts aligned to SLOs to ensure fast and focused problem resolution., • Refine logging and tracing setups so engineers can easily understand system behavior and product flows., • Benchmark and evaluate cloud storage performance, helping shape choices around filesystems and tradeoffs., • Review network, IAM, and security configurations to maintain least-privilege, hardened environments., • Contribute to feature development within the application codebase when needed., • Improve logging, metrics, tracing, and authentication patterns across services., • Analyse cloud infrastructure costs and drive meaningful optimisations., • Write and maintain clean, reusable Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for AWS, GCP, and Azure., • Partner with product engineering teams to support and improve IAM models. Experience: • 4+ years’ experience working in cloud-based engineering or platform roles., • A naturally curious mindset, with the willingness to dive deep into complex technical problems., • Hands-on experience delivering Infrastructure as Code in production environments (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, CDK, ARM/Bicep, etc.)., • Experience with at least one programming language — Go or Java preferred., • Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, or similar., • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to a fast-moving environment., • A strong sense of ownership, reliability, and accountability. Bonus Skills (Not required, but great to have) • Deep understanding of cloud storage, snapshots, encryption, and volume management., • Familiarity with filesystems and performance characteristics., • Experience working across multiple cloud vendors and handling cross-account IAM or identity federation., • Exposure to serverless platforms across AWS, GCP, or Azure. Package: • Up to £90k salary (depending on experience), • Share/stock options, • Hybrid working - Belfast, • Enhanced pension scheme - 8% matched, • Private health If you're passionate about cloud security, love solving tough technical problems, and want to join a team building something genuinely impactful, this role offers the autonomy, challenge, and growth you’re looking for.