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

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