As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll help shape and run secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable teams across the Bank to build and deploy services with confidence.
You'll focus on automation, strong guardrails and resilient design, with a particular emphasis on enabling AI services in our cloud environments.
This role offers the chance to work at scale, influence standards, and make a real impact on how cloud is adopted across Bank of Ireland.
- Design, build and run secure, highly available cloud platform services across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with a focus on enabling AI workloads.
- Develop automation and serverless solutions, using Infrastructure as Code and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) practices.
- Implement and operate cloud landing zones, including account provisioning, governance controls and security guardrails.
- Partner with Cloud Architects and engineering teams to translate designs into practical, reliable solutions and promote platform standards.
- Monitor, optimise and continuously improve platform components to ensure reliability, performance and compliance.
You bring strong experience designing and operating cloud platforms, with a solid understanding of security, governance and automation. You're comfortable working with AWS services such as Lambda, Identity and Access Management (IAM), networking and logging, and you enjoy building reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using tools like CloudFormation, Python and Terraform.
You communicate clearly, collaborate well with technical and non-technical colleagues, and enjoy documenting patterns and sharing knowledge.
A curious mindset and a drive to improve how platforms are built and used will help you succeed in this role.
Experience with the following will help you stand out but is not required to apply for this role:
- Experience in regulated or financial services environments.
- AWS certifications and exposure to container platforms, AI AWS Services and non-native CI/CD tooling
- Knowledge of Zero Trust principles or service mesh and API gateway concepts.
There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.
You'll join our Cloud Centre of Excellence which is part of Technology Services and Infrastructure Operations.
The team's purpose is to enable the Bank by providing secure, stable and modern technology platforms that support our customers and colleagues.
Acting as trusted advisors, the team drives cloud adoption as a foundation for digital transformation, while continuously improving security, resilience and ways of working. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and architects who value collaboration, learning and practical problem-solving.
This is a hybrid role, based primarily in IT Centre Cabinteely. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.
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The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions.
Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.
Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!
We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.
Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
