Platform Engineering Team Lead

Kerry
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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 (url removed) / (phone number removed)

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