
Software Engineer – Infrastructure
Phorest Software
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Ireland
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About the role
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformCI/CDInfrastructure as Codecloud securityscriptingautomationcost optimizationencryptionnetwork security
Soft Skills
initiativecollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipadaptabilitycritical thinkingopinion voicingreliabilitysecurity focus