Senior Platform Engineer (Observability / AWS)
Belfast (Hybrid – 1 day per week onsite)
£65k+ | Private Health | Share Options
ViVA Tech Talent are helping a fast-growing SaaS company build out its brand-new Platform Engineering function – and we’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who’s passionate about observability, reliability, and scalable infrastructure.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll shape how the team operates from day one. You’ll take ownership of designing, building, and maintaining the systems that give engineering teams visibility into performance and reliability – ensuring the product runs smoothly at scale.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing and managing observability tooling across monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Leading the rollout of Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki, and evolving the observability stack.
- Building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS, using Terraform for everything IaC.
- Partnering with product and platform teams to define and track SLIs/SLOs.
- Troubleshooting and improving production systems, driving reliability best practices.
What We’re Looking For
- Solid experience operating production-grade observability systems (Grafana / Prometheus / Loki or similar).
- Strong AWS skills and deep familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- A collaborative engineer who enjoys shaping standards and mentoring others.
- Bonus: exposure to OpenTelemetry, Kamal, or modern deployment tooling.
Why This Role?
- Hybrid working – 1 day a week in Belfast.
- Choose between a 4-day (32h) or 5-day (40h) week.
- Competitive salary + private health insurance (for you and family).
- Share options, L&D budget, generous holiday allowance, and a supportive, modern culture.
If you’re ready to take ownership, influence architecture, and help define how a new platform engineering function operates – we’d love to chat.
Hit the Apply button or contact Orla Fitzsimons (orla@vivatechtalent.com) today for a confidential chat.
