Software Engineer – Infrastructure

Phorest Software

Software Engineer designing reliable, secure AWS infrastructure for Phorest, enabling self-service tooling that supports salons. Collaborating with teams to enhance cloud solutions and automate CI/CD processes.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇪 IrelandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudEC2PythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS and Terraform, focusing on reliability, security, and cost optimization.
Drive infrastructure improvements including implementing security enhancements (WAF, encryption, MFA), optimizing AWS resource utilization, and improving monitoring and observability.
Build and maintain infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling to support continuous delivery.
Work alongside senior developers and other technical leaders to drive platform improvements, including implementing security enhancements, optimizing cloud infrastructure, building audit systems, and improving internal data pipelines.
Implement cost management strategies including Reserved Instance optimisation, budget alerting systems, and cost allocation through tagging.
Collaborate with development teams to enable self-service infrastructure capabilities while maintaining security and compliance.
Demonstrate infrastructure-as-code best practices including modularity, reusability, testing, and documentation.
Take initiative on designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 3 years of professional experience with AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, etc.).
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code - Terraform preferred.
Experience with CI/CD tools and practices for infrastructure deployment.
Hands-on experience with cloud security practices including IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance.
Comfortable with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, or similar).
Understanding of cost optimization strategies and cloud financial management.
Someone that challenges the norm and isn’t afraid to voice their opinion.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.
As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.
We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets.
We support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.
We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.
Phorest employees get 3 moving days.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSTerraformCI/CDInfrastructure as Codecloud securityscriptingautomationcost optimizationencryptionnetwork security

Soft Skills

initiativecollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipadaptabilitycritical thinkingopinion voicingreliabilitysecurity focus