AWS Platform Engineer, Technology & Transformation

Role: AWS Platform Engineer, Technology & Transformation

Location: Hybrid, 2/3 days in Belfast, the rest from home

Start Date: ASAP, for 6 months initially

Daily Rate: Inside IR35: Competitive

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Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious engineering projects?

Technology & Transformation: How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That's exactly what you'll help our clients to do. You'll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders - and use the most exciting new technologies available - to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations.

You may have a brilliant mind, be a confident communicator or a nerd for all things digital, or you may have an impeccable business instinct, a collaborative outlook and a flair for big ideas. Come as you are because we value difference and celebrate diversity. Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever-evolving marketplace.

Our practice is positioned at the crucial intersection of business, technology, and industry to build and run services for our clients that answer their most challenging problems.

This role is focused on the technical delivery of innovative new solutions for clients. Join us to drive innovation and technology forward, collaborating within cross-functional teams. You will utilise leading-edge methodologies and tools to develop and implement groundbreaking, user-friendly solutions. Offering excellent development opportunities, you will have the chance to hone your technical craft, gain new skills, and complete qualifications and certificates. This is your chance to make a real impact.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

This team is focused on the technical delivery of new solutions that solve complex challenges for clients. Join us to drive innovation and technology forward, collaborating with cross-functional teams and using cutting-edge tools. Offering excellent development opportunities, you will have the chance to hone your technical craft, gain new skills, and complete qualifications and certificates. This is your chance to make a real impact.

We’re on the lookout for a talented and experienced platform engineer to join our rapidly growing team. Every day is different, requiring your in-depth knowledge of engineering and architectural principles to design and build innovative platform solutions for our broad range of clients. You will work with our outstanding digital talent, collaborating closely in mature, cross-functional teams to think big and push the boundaries of what is possible. This is your chance to drive digital transformation and shape the future of services for the UK. Explore the exciting possibilities as a platform engineer at Deloitte, where your skills meet unparalleled opportunities.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

We partner with incredible clients across a variety of industries, leveraging a wide range of cutting-edge technologies. While the following skills provide a taste of what you might work with, don't view this list as absolute requirements. We're very interested in your passion for innovation and your ability to deliver exceptional solutions for our clients.

We are looking for an adaptable professional with relevant previous experience. At Deloitte, we know that it takes a mix of people to do amazing work. You'll collaborate with and learn from talented individuals with diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives – bringing your own unique mix to the table is encouraged!

If you're passionate about driving innovation and have a proven track record in building brilliant things, we invite you to explore this opportunity.

The following are the core skills and experience expected to be successful in this role:

• Solid and demonstrable experience in IT infrastructure and cloud engineering or architecture, with a deep working knowledge of compute, storage, networking, and cloud management principles applied in professional delivery contexts.
• A track record of designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based platforms and infrastructure, with a focus on AWS.
• Hands on experience with AWS, including practical delivery across core services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Lambda, and AWS App Runner or AWS Fargate.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform (including AWS), AWS CloudFormation, or the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
• Background in CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, or similar.
• Understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments, including AWS-specific best practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimise workloads for performance, cost, and reliability on AWS.

The following will be desirable skills:

• Professional or specialty level AWS certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, reflecting depth of technical knowledge across complex platform domains.
• Knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles and practices.
• Relevant AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified AI Practitioner, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Security – Specialty) are a plus.
• Hands on experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling, particularly Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, and a substantial appreciation for repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable provisioning practices.
• Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, including experience integrating on-premises environments with AWS.
• Working knowledge of AI and ML services on AWS, with a clear understanding of how platforms such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Q Business can be positioned to drive measurable client outcomes.
• Experience with AWS billing, cost management, and optimisation, including services such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports.
• Exposure to data engineering or analytics workloads on AWS, such as AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, or Amazon SQS, with an ability to contribute meaningfully to data-driven client programmes alongside specialist data teams.
• Have SC Clearance or eligibility to gain SC clearance.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

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