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Senior Platform Engineer
£85,000 - 100,000
The Recruitment Company
Donegall Square South, Dublin
£85,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Build and operate cloud-native platforms in GCP and Azure, using Terraform as the single source of truth
- Design and maintain internal developer platforms, not just cloud infrastructure
- Create self-service workflows that allow engineering teams to provision and deploy without tickets
- Run and improve production Kubernetes clusters (GKE & AKS)
- Implement GitOps using ArgoCD, Helm, and Kustomize
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for both infrastructure and application delivery
- Design secure cloud networking (VPCs, VPNs, peering, network policies)
- Implement IAM/RBAC and authentication (SAML, OIDC, LDAP)
- Build monitoring and observability that developers can actually use (Grafana & Prometheus)
- Automate platform workflows using Bash and Python/Ruby/Go
- Manage shared platform services (DNS, messaging, API gateways)
- Write documentation and build golden paths for engineering teams
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation
- Production experience with GCP and/or Azure
- Strong understanding of cloud networking and security
- Terraform as a primary tool (writing reusable modules)
- Strong Bash scripting
- Experience with Python, Ruby, or Go
- Operating Kubernetes in production (GKE or AKS)
- Strong Git skills beyond basic commits
- Clear understanding of pipeline quality and maintainability
- Grafana and Prometheus in production
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service portals - Nice to have
- Financial services or regulated environment experience - Nice to have
- Kubernetes CKA or cloud certifications - Nice to have
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with teams to enhance platform design and evolution
- Optimize workflows for engineering teams to enhance deployment speed
- Ensure robust performance and availability of Kubernetes clusters
- Implement and maintain comprehensive CI/CD pipelines
- Develop secure network designs that align with best practices
- Create actionable monitoring solutions that minimize false alerts
- Oversee the documentation of processes for ease of use across teams
- Manage the integration of platform services to streamline operations
- Contribute to on-call support to maintain service reliability
Description
We are a dynamic company located in Kerry, open to candidates across Ireland, with the flexibility to travel 1-2 days every 4-6 weeks. We offer a competitive salary ranging from €85K to €100K annually, alongside a bonus and comprehensive benefits. We pride ourselves on providing our team with real influence over how our platform is designed and evolved, ensuring a collaborative and innovative work environment.
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