Funds-Axis Group Limited

Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer Location: India/ Belfast Contract: Permanent, Full Time Hours: 40 Hours per week Reporting to: Lead - Cloud Infrastructure About Funds-Axis Funds-Axis' Mission is to be routinely identified as a leading trusted provider of global funds technology to the Investment Management industry. Our Vision is to transform the industry approach to investment compliance, risk, and regulatory reporting by offering a highly efficient and secure, multi-modular technology platform backed up by highest levels of expert regulatory support and service. Our clients are leading global asset managers, administrators, and depositary banks. This market is growing strongly, reflecting increasing regulatory demands and the need for technology solutions. Our Core Values and company Culture revolves around Innovation through Collaboration, Expertise, Pride in our Excellence of Service, Trust, and Integrity. As a result of continued growth, we are actively recruiting an ambitious, sociable, intelligent Product Owners with initiative, a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills and analytical skills. Basic Qualifications 7+ years of hands on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering, with exposure to live production environments. Practical end to end experience across planning, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and operational support. Experience designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable, and reliable AWS based solutions in production. Hands on experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and CI/CD processes in enterprise or product environments. Experience working with containerised applications and supporting deployments across non production and production environments. Good understanding of networking, security, identity and access management, backup and recovery, and operational best practices in cloud environments. Practical experience in AWS cost management, including identifying optimisation opportunities, improving resource utilisation, and supporting cost conscious infrastructure decisions. A practical and collaborative approach, with willingness to contribute to planning, implementation, troubleshooting, continuous improvement, and cost optimisation activities. Roles and Responsibilities Contribute to the planning, design, implementation, and ongoing support of cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions. Build, maintain, and improve secure, scalable, and reliable AWS platforms that support business critical applications. Implement and support CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent, efficient, and reliable software delivery. Work with engineering, architecture, security, and support teams to help ensure solutions are practical, supportable, and production ready. Support infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation initiatives to improve consistency and reduce manual effort. Monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and assist with incident resolution and root cause analysis for production environments. Help implement logging, alerting, and observability capabilities to improve reliability, visibility, and operational response. Support cloud security, patching, backup, recovery, and access control activities in line with operational standards. Assist with environment planning, performance tuning, and cost optimisation across cloud services and workloads. Analyse AWS usage and spending patterns help identify cost saving opportunities, and support implementation of cost management best practices such as rightsizing, scheduling, tagging, and resource optimisation. Take a hands on approach to delivery, working across planning and implementation while contributing to continuous platform improvement. Key Skills Required Hands on experience with AWS services across compute, networking, storage, security, monitoring, and platform operations, such as EC2, ECS, EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, RDS, and S3. Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules and environment configuration. Experience with CI/CD tooling and deployment automation using platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Circle CI or similar tools. Experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages. Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools to support operational reliability and troubleshooting. Understanding of cloud security, secrets management, patching, access control, and operational governance. Experience with AWS cost management and optimisation, including cost analysis, resource rightsizing, tagging practices, usage reporting, and identifying opportunities to improve cost efficiency. Familiarity with AWS cost and billing tools such as Cost Explorer, Budgets, tagging strategies, and FinOps oriented cost governance practices. Working knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, with experience supporting performance tuning and performance improvements in production environments. Strong problem solving skills and a practical approach to troubleshooting infrastructure, deployment, and cost efficiency issues. Desired Skills Exposure to Sumo Logic to support log analysis, operational visibility, issue investigation, and service reliability. Awareness of AI deployment within infrastructure environments, including scalable platform provisioning, model hosting considerations, automation, and operational readiness. Certifications Certifications required AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional Good to have Terraform Associate. Kubernetes, DevOps, or cloud security certifications. Additional AWS certifications in DevOps, Security, or Advanced Networking. Why Choose Us? In return for your commitment, we offer a strong remuneration package and significant opportunities to grow and develop as our business expands, including: 33 days' vacation leave per annum (prorated if starting during the leave year). This includes all bank holidays/statutory days. 5% employer contribution pension Healthcare and life insurance Progressive maternity and paternity pay Work with a great team Travel opportunities Work with leading international finance companies First class training package Excellent career progression opportunities Free, secure city centre parking onsite Apply If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role, email your details to today, forwarding an up to date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.

Funds-Axis Group Limited is looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer based in Belfast. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining secure, scalable AWS platforms that support business-critical applications. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and strong automation skills. In return, we offer a competitive salary, 33 days of vacation, comprehensive health insurance, and numerous opportunities for professional growth.