Full job descriptionManager, AWS Platform EngineerBasic informationLocation

Belfast

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

20-Oct-2026

Req #

25549
Job descriptionConnect to your Industry
Deloitte’s Engineering practice is at the forefront of transforming businesses by bringing together cutting-edge tech programme delivery, quality assurance, and testing expertise. We empower clients to modernise their core business through our deep capabilities in application and infrastructure engineering, cloud strategy, transformation, and migration. Practitioners within this team continuously advance their expertise to deliver robust, innovative solutions, from initial strategy to implementation and optimization.
When Deloitte and AWS partner together, through collaboration, innovation and trust, we help organisations achieve meaningful change and reach their full potential. With our one team approach, we combine our extensive capabilities, industry knowledge and cutting-edge AWS technology to create transformative solutions that have a tangible impact for our clients.
Join a team that is not only recognised for its leadership but is actively shaping the future of AWS-enabled solutions.
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
As a Manager, you’ll bring your growing expertise in AWS to bear on complex, real-world client challenges, working alongside experienced principals and architects to design and deliver solutions that are robust, scalable, and aligned to what our clients actually need.
As an AWS Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for:
*Design, develop and maintain secure high-quality AWS solutions, platforms and delivery pipelines, working across the software development lifecycle from design through deployment and maintenance.
*Translate client requirements into robust, scalable technical designs, working with senior architects and delivery leads to ensure solutions align with business objectives.
*Provide technical insight during system design and contribute to design reviews, technical assurance, and delivery planning.
*Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and promote consistent engineering practices within the delivery team.
*Design and automate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, applying DevOps practices to improve repeatability, security and delivery quality.
*Optimise AWS workloads for performance, cost, security, reliability, and operational supportability.
*Proactively troubleshoot issues, support live services, and take ownership of resolving complex production problems, escalating where appropriate.
*Identify technical delivery risks, recommend mitigation actions, and contribute to contingency planning.
*Engage directly with client stakeholders, explaining technical options clearly and helping turn requirements into practical delivery plans.
*Contribute to effective communication, collaboration and knowledge transfer across multidisciplinary teams.
*Support and mentor less-experienced engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
*Stay current with AWS services and engineering approaches, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q Business, and propose relevant innovations for client delivery.
*Contribute to the engineering community through learning sessions, reusable assets, methods, and intellectual property.
*Support technical pre-sales activity, including bid documentation, RFIs, RFPs, and client presentations.
*Participate in technical interviews and support the onboarding of new team members.
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 demonstrated experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering or cloud architecture, with strong working knowledge of compute, storage, networking and cloud management principles.
*A track record of designing, building and maintaining cloud-based platforms and infrastructure, with a focus on AWS.
*Experience understanding client requirements and solving problems within multidisciplinary delivery teams.
*Hands-on delivery experience across AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, AWS IAM, AWS Lambda, AWS App Runner or AWS Fargate.
*Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
*Experience designing and automating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild or similar tools.
*Understanding cloud networking, security and identity management, including AWS best practices.
*Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray.
*Experience with Git and scripting or programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Bash or Go.
*Ability to troubleshoot and optimise enterprise workloads for performance, cost, and reliability.
*Clear communication skills and...