Senior/Staff Platform Engineer — Infrastructure
jobgether
Ireland
Full-time
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Accountabilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of the internal developer platform, including Kubernetes environments, observability systems, secrets management, delivery pipelines, and shared infrastructure services.
- Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure components, ensuring high availability, performance, and operational resilience.
- Develop production-grade platform tooling, services, APIs, operators, and automation solutions using Go and/or Python.
- Build and maintain self-service infrastructure capabilities such as reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, CI/CD templates, and platform APIs to improve developer productivity.
- Drive the scalability and modernization of cloud and bare-metal infrastructure environments while continuously enhancing monitoring, logging, and deployment systems.
- Own infrastructure security initiatives, including identity management, access controls, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, and compliance requirements.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure controls that support audit readiness and industry-standard security frameworks.
- Strengthen container, software supply chain, and platform security through vulnerability management, artifact verification, security scanning, and zero-trust principles.
- Promote the adoption of AI-driven tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, automation, incident response, documentation, and operational efficiency.
- Define technical standards, reduce technical debt, mentor engineers, conduct architectural reviews, and contribute to the long-term infrastructure strategy.
- Partner with engineering, security, data, and operations teams to translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform solutions.
- Participate in incident response activities and lead post-incident improvement initiatives to enhance platform reliability.
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or related disciplines.
- At least 3 years of experience in senior, staff, principal, or technical leadership roles with responsibility for system architecture and engineering direction.
- Strong software engineering expertise with Go and/or Python, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of production-grade services and tools.
- Proven experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed systems with a strong understanding of scalability, resilience, capacity planning, and architectural trade-offs.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes across cloud, hybrid, and bare-metal environments, including networking, storage, multi-tenancy, and lifecycle management.
- Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable module development, infrastructure automation, and large-scale state management.
- Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OCI, or equivalent environments.
- Strong knowledge of observability ecosystems, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and telemetry solutions.
- Experience with deployment automation, GitOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, Helm, ArgoCD, or comparable delivery technologies.
- Solid Linux systems administration and networking knowledge, including DNS, load balancing, VPNs, routing, firewalls, and related infrastructure concepts.
- Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure security, compliance frameworks, container security, supply chain protection, and zero-trust architectures.
- Experience leveraging AI tools within engineering workflows and driving adoption of automation and productivity-enhancing technologies.
- Strong communication, mentoring, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills within distributed teams.
- Professional English communication skills (minimum B2 level).
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment.
- Full-time contractor engagement with an indefinite-term agreement.
- Competitive compensation package with flexible payment options.
- Paid vacation and sick leave.
- Comprehensive well-being support program.
- Mental health care and wellness initiatives.
- Professional development budget for technical training, certifications, language learning, and career growth.
- Equipment reimbursement program.
- Coworking space reimbursement.
- Opportunities to attend international conferences, industry events, and community gatherings.
- Collaborative, ownership-driven culture focused on innovation and continuous learning.
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and large-scale infrastructure challenges.
- International and highly distributed team environment.
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