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Description: CluneTech is a global technology group that provides solutions to simplify international business, including digital sales, global payroll, global VAT, tax compliance, and cross-border payments. The group is headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland, and publicly lists more than 1,200 employees, 35 offices, and operations across 20 countries. About the role: We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to support, secure, and evolve mission-critical cloud infrastructure for regulated financial technology workloads. Senior AWS Platform Engineer with strong PostgreSQL expertise responsible for cloud modernization, Aurora adoption, SQL Server migration, Terraform-driven infrastructure, and operational excellence across a regulated fintech platform. The successful candidate will play a key role in AWS infrastructure engineering, database administration, Linux systems operations, CI/CD automation, cost optimisation, observability, and application modernisation. They will also help introduce approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve documentation, operational efficiency, code quality, and incident response. This role requires strong ownership, excellent technical judgement, and the ability to produce clear, audit-ready documentation that supports compliance, knowledge transfer, and operational continuity. Responsibilities: 1. AWS Infrastructure Engineering Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production financial workloads. Work with services including EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, Aurora, S3, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, IAM, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API Gateway, AWS IAM Identity Center, and QuickSight. Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. Manage infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and environments. Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent. Design and maintain secure networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, and related controls. Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability using CloudWatch, dashboards, metrics, alarms, and log aggregation. Execute cost optimisation initiatives across compute, storage, databases, data transfer, and managed services. Build and maintain AWS QuickSight dashboards for billing analytics, cost allocation, usage trends, and financial reporting. Support recurring FinOps activities including monthly spend reviews, rightsizing, Savings Plans / Reserved Instance analysis, and waste elimination. 2. Database Administration Administer PostgreSQL environments, including RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, and self-managed PostgreSQL where applicable. Support PostgreSQL version lifecycle management, including supported production versions and upgrade planning. Manage replication, backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, vacuuming, indexing, query tuning, and performance troubleshooting. Manage Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL clusters, including scaling, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and Performance Insights. Administer SQL Server on Amazon RDS, including backup strategies, index maintenance, Query Store analysis, and parameter tuning. Plan and execute database migrations, including SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations using AWS DMS and native database tooling. Implement database security controls, including encryption at rest and in transit, IAM authentication where appropriate, audit logging, access control, and secrets management. 3. Linux Systems Administration Manage Amazon Linux 2023 and RHEL-based systems. Perform patching, hardening, performance tuning, log management, and operational troubleshooting. Administer Apache HTTP Server, including virtual hosts, SSL/TLS, module configuration, and runtime troubleshooting. Manage systemd services, EBS/EFS