Senior Consultant, AWS Platform Engineer

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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.

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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.

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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.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll bring strong AWS platform engineering expertise to the delivery of cloud solutions and transformation programmes. You'll take ownership of significant technical work packages, contribute to technical design decisions and help delivery teams implement engineering best practice across platform, automation and cloud infrastructure activities.

You will combine hands-on engineering capability with growing technical leadership, helping clients deliver secure, scalable and resilient AWS platforms while developing your expertise across architecture, automation, DevOps and platform engineering disciplines.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Design, build and maintain AWS platforms, infrastructure and cloud-native solutions.
• Lead the delivery of technical work packages and platform engineering activities.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code, automation tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply AWS best practices across security, reliability, scalability and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Support architecture, design and technical assurance activities.
• Identify technical risks and support mitigation activities.
• Drive engineering quality through peer reviews, testing practices and technical documentation.
• Provide technical leadership within assigned workstreams and develop recognised expertise within specific platform engineering domains.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and client stakeholders to solve technical challenges.
• Support and mentor junior engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to reusable assets, engineering standards and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging AWS services and engineering approaches to support innovation and delivery excellence.

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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:

• Experience designing, building and supporting cloud-based platforms and infrastructure with AWS.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services, cloud architecture and platform engineering principles.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Understanding of cloud networking, identity management and platform operations.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tooling.
• Experience developing scripts or applications using languages such as Python, TypeScript, Bash or Go.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure and platform issues.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience contributing to technical design discussions and solution delivery.
• Strong understanding of platform security principles and the ability to apply them when designing and developing AWS platform solutions.
• Experience supporting and coaching less experienced engineers.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certification, or active progress towards it.

The following will be desirable skills:

• Knowledge of site reliability engineering principles and practices and their application within platform environments.
• Relevant AWS certification, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling, particularly Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK, with an appreciation of repeatable, version-controlled and auditable provisioning practices.
• Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, including the integration of on-premises environments with AWS.
• Working knowledge of AI and machine learning services on AWS, including Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q Business, and how they can support client outcomes.
• Experience with AWS billing, cost management and optimisation, including 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 the ability to contribute alongside specialist data teams.
• Willing and eligible to obtain UK security clearance to Security Check (SC) is essential.
• Active or readily transferable security clearance is desirable.

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.

Engineering, AI and Data

We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Consulting

"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.” - Rhiannon, Consulting

“Everyone always says, “it’s the people,” and that’s true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don’t have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital.” - Gillian, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in Belfast with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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