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.