Platform Stability & AWS Platform Owner

Location: Dublin

Working arrangement: Hybrid (1 day onsite)

Rate: €450-500 per day

Duration: 12 Months Min (Long term contract)

We’re hiring a hands-on Platform Owner to take full ownership of platform stability, uptime, governance, and technical execution across an enterprise-scale AWS environment.

You will be responsible for and have technical authority:

• Owns platform stability and uptime (not just “keeps the lights on”)
• Sets and enforces governance, standards, and execution discipline
• Drives delivery across teams: prioritisation, decision-making, unblocking, and follow-through
• Improves monitoring, incident response, reliability, and cost optimisation
• Challenges assumptions and raises the bar on engineering quality

We are looking for people with:

• You must have strong, real-world ownership in the following:
• Enterprise-scale AWS ownership (large, production environments)
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (deep hands-on capability)
• Strong understanding of EKS and/or ECS in production
• Proven ability driving technical execution across teams
• Clear evidence of platform ownership (not support-only, not advisory-only)
• Strong communication and leadership presence — you can influence, align, and challenge
• Track record improving stability, monitoring, and cost optimisation
• You will have a proven ability to challenge Engineers, drive decisions and own outcomes (end to end)
• Proven ability to operate at an enterprise scale.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to be challenged. The project is very complex and will offer long term impact, you will work closely with a talented team and influence senior stakeholders.

Not suitable for

This role is not a fit for:

• AWS Support / Escalation engineers
• Cloud consultants without end-to-end platform ownership
• Pure architects without execution / delivery accountability
• Pure DevOps implementers (delivery-only, no ownership)
• Weak communicators (this role is high-influence)
• Remote-only candidates

This is not a people-management role — but you will technically lead ~8–10 engineers, drive decisions, and be accountable for outcomes.