Platform Lead Software Engineer - Contract
Need to be based in Dublin
Eu citizen/ Uk citizen/ Stamp 4

Your new company
Our client is a leading global financial institution renowned for its commitment to innovation, security, and customer-centric solutions. With a strong presence across multiple regions, they provide a wide range of financial products and services, leveraging cutting-edge technology to drive digital transformation and deliver seamless experiences to millions of customers worldwide. Their technology teams focus on building scalable, secure platforms that support critical business operations in highly regulated environments.

Your new role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer with deep expertise in AWS to join a dynamic team focused on building resilient, secure, and scalable cloud platforms that support next-generation digital applications. This role offers the opportunity to work in cutting-edge cloud-native environments, collaborating closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver innovative, secure, and highly available solutions.

Responsiblities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS platform infrastructure supporting business-critical applications with stringent availability and security needs.
• Partner with software engineers, SREs, and security teams to automate deployment, observability, and compliance workflows
• Identify and eliminate operational toil by automating issue triage and improving platform stability
• Champion DevSecOps practices by integrating security controls throughout the platform lifecycle
• Contribute to the design of highly available systems resilient to cloud-native failure modes
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to platform engineers and cross-functional teams
• Stay current with emerging technologies, evaluating and recommending adoption to enhance platform capabilities

What you'll need to succeed

• 7+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure in regulated environments
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, IAM, and governance within AWS
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Go, or Shell
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Knowledge of multi-account cloud architecture, landing zones, or control tower setups
• Familiarity with zero-trust architecture, data encryption, and KMS
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) for cloud automation
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration platforms like EKS/Kubernetes
• Advanced networking knowledge (firewalls, DNS, load balancing, proxies)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, or AWS native solutions
• Proven ability to optimise cost and performance across large cloud environments
• Prior experience in financial services, fintech, or other regulated industries is highly desirable
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in cloud engineering communities is a plus.

What you'll get in return

• Work on innovative cloud platforms impacting users globally
• Collaborate with diverse, high-performing teams in a secure, customer-focused engineering culture
• Opportunity to explore and adopt new technologies in a fast-evolving cloud landscape
• 3 days onsite mandatory in Dublin
• Eu citizen/ UK citizen/ Stamp 4
• Based in Dublin

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What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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