Platform Engineering Team Lead

  • Kerry Location - open to candidates across Ireland (willing to travel 1-2 days every 4-6 weeks)
  • €85K-€100K/Year + Bonus + Benefits
  • Real influence over how the platform is designed and evolved

Candidates MUST be based in Ireland and holding a minimum Stamp4 Visa. 

Your Requirements:

  • 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

Your Experience:

  • Production experience with GCP and/or Azure

  • Building platform tooling or frameworks used by other engineers

  • Designing infrastructure with developer consumption in mind

  • Strong understanding of cloud networking and security

  • Terraform as a primary tool (writing reusable modules)

  • Strong Bash scripting

  • Experience with Python, Ruby, or Go

  • Image builds with Packer

  • Operating Kubernetes in production (GKE or AKS)

  • Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD

  • Container security fundamentals

  • Strong Git skills beyond basic commits

  • Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines end-to-end

  • Clear understanding of pipeline quality and maintainability

  • Grafana and Prometheus in production

  • Designing actionable alerts with minimal noise

  • Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service portals - Nice to have

  • Financial services or regulated environment experience - Nice to have

  • Exposure to PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 - Nice to have

  • Kubernetes CKA or cloud certifications - Nice to have

  • Secrets management tools (Vault, cloud secret managers) - Nice to have

Please APPLY directly or contact me on [email protected] / 016917002

The Details

Posted 13 hours ago
Reference:
287817
Location:
Ireland, County Kerry
Salary:
€85000 - €100000/Year DOE + Bonus + Benefits
Classification:
Information & Communication Technology
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Infrastructure & Cloud Recruiter

Sara O'Toole

Infrastructure & Cloud – Recruiter

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