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Platform Engineering Team Lead
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The Recruitment Company
Platform Engineering Team Lead
£85,000 - £100,000
Kerry
Hybrid
Graduate
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Description
  • 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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The Recruitment Company
Platform Engineering Team Lead£85,000 - £100,000
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