Senior Platform Engineer (Observability)

Methodfi; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is looking for an experienced individual to lead the design and management of observability systems in Belfast. You will play a critical role in shaping the observability stack and managing AWS infrastructure, ensuring services are reliable and efficient. The role offers a hybrid working model and competitive salary starting from £65k for a full-time position.

Benefits

4 or 5-day work week

Competitive annual salary and pro-rated for part-time

Remote Work Option

Private health insurance

Company pension plan

35 or 28 days paid annual leave

L&D support and budget

Share options

Work from Home budget

Company-wide social events

Qualifications

• Proven experience in observability stack design and operation.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure management.
• Skilled in Terraform for infrastructure and monitoring.
• Ability to define and manage metrics and alerting strategies.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems.
• Effective communication of technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and management of observability systems.
• Define and implement monitoring and logging strategies.
• Build Terraform modules for provisioning.
• Work with teams to ensure service reliability.
• Proactively monitor and resolve production issues.

Skills

Designing and operating production-grade observability stacks

Building and managing AWS infrastructure

Writing and maintaining Terraform modules

Defining and managing key metrics, alerting, dashboards

Troubleshooting complex production systems

Communicating technical concepts clearly

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Terraform

AWS

Job description

You’ll be joining Stora at an exciting time - on the ground floor of our new Platform Engineering team. With a slant towards observability and infrastructure, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how the team operates and contribute to the technical direction.

From day one, you’ll take ownership of designing and operating the systems that give us deep insight into the health, performance, and reliability of our platform. Your work will span monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and infrastructure as code — equipping our developers and operators with the visibility and tooling they need to deliver a world-class product.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the design, rollout, and management of observability systems (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).

• Lead the migration away from our old AppSignal setup.

• Define and implement monitoring, application logging, audit logging, and alerting strategies across AWS.

• Build Terraform modules to provision observability and core infrastructure.

• Work closely with product and platform teams to ensure services are well-instrumented and reliable.

• Help establish and measure SLIs/SLOs to guide operational excellence.

• Proactively monitor, investigate, and resolve production issues, driving preventative improvements.

Our Technology Stack

We’re pragmatic and pick tools that balance speed and sustainability. Key elements relevant to this role include:

• Observability: Managed Grafana, Managed Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry

• Infrastructure: Moving from Heroku to AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, IAM, Managed Grafana, Managed Prometheus, etc.)

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

• Application stack (for context): Rails 7.1, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Redis, Sidekiq

• CI/CD & Ops: GitHub Actions, Docker, Kamal, Heroku (migration to AWS in progress)

What We’re Looking For

Proven experience in:

• Designing and operating production-grade observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).

• Building and managing AWS infrastructure.

• Writing and maintaining Terraform modules for infrastructure and monitoring.

• Defining and managing key metrics, alerting, dashboards, and log pipelines.

• Troubleshooting complex production systems with a focus on reliability.

• Communicating technical concepts clearly across teams.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with OpenTelemetry

• Familiarity with Kamal

• Background in incident response and on-call practices.

• Interest in security, compliance, and cost optimisation in observability.

Important: This is a hybrid role based in Northern Ireland.

Benefits & Compensation

• 4 or 5-day week – Choose between working a 5-day (40-hour) week or a 4-day (32-hour).

• Competitive annual salary – starting from £65k for 5-day week (pro-rated for 4-day week).

• Remote Work Option – Remote with one day per week in our Belfast office.

• Health & wellness – Private health insurance for you and your family.

• Retirement – Company pension plan.

• Leave – 35 or 28 days paid annual leave, depending on your work week.

• Professional growth – L&D support and budget.

• Share options.

• WFH budget.

• Company-wide social events.

Next steps

We’re reviewing applications as they come in and will be in touch quickly if it looks like a match.

Equal Opportunities at Stora

Stora is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religious belief or political opinion, or sexual orientation.

All recruitment and employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and business need. We actively promote equality of opportunity and fair participation in line with our responsibilities under Northern Ireland equality legislation.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.