Senior DevOps Engineer in Belfast

VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment - home to iconic and trusted brands that inspire, inform, and delight audiences. Our unique combination of content, technology and services enriches the cultural fabric, igniting passions, sparking conversations, and connecting people to what they love most.

GolfNow is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the modernisation, scalability, and reliability of our infrastructure across development and production environments. In this role, you’ll report to the Director of DevOps – International and work closely with software engineers, product managers, and support teams to evolve our cloud-first DevOps practice.

You will lead critical projects involving migration of legacy systems to AWS, design and optimise deployment pipelines, improve observability and incident response, and drive process alignment across teams and platforms. This is a hands‑on leadership role ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing architecture, and mentoring others while building robust and maintainable systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure in AWS
• Lead or contribute to migration projects, helping move legacy, customer hosted systems into cloud‑native architectures
• Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform
• Guide improvements to system architecture, focusing on reliability, observability, and cost‑efficiency
• Contribute to modernising our CI/CD practices, enabling safe, rapid delivery of services across environments.
• Improve operational visibility through monitoring, logging, and tracing, and support incident response efforts
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and design reviews
• Help align DevOps tooling and processes across Versant, promoting platform consistency and best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field – or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed architectures
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch)
• Proficiency in infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience designing and building resilient systems that can scale across multiple environments and tenants
• Experience running and operating containerised workloads in production (e.g., Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and experience integrating automation into team workflows
• Strong scripting or programming skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Go)
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across teams and disciplines

Additional skills and experience that would give you the edge over the competition

• Experience managing Java application environments, including JVM tuning and build systems
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation
• Knowledge of Cloudflare and its role in DNS, security, and CDN layers
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or MySQL in production environments
• Experience leading or participating in cloud migration efforts
• Exposure to multi‑tenant SaaS architectures
• Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, ELK)
• Knowledge of modern networking practices in AWS
• Interest in the golf industry or experience working on platforms related to booking, memberships, or golf course operations

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in‑person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation.

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