Platform Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Technical Operations team in Dublin. You will ensure our user‑facing and production systems run smoothly 24/7, while continuously improving our workflows and technology stack.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS using Terraform, including reusable modules.
• Operate and enhance production Kubernetes clusters using Helm, Karpenter, ArgoCD, and AWS EKS.
• Implement and maintain GitOps‑driven CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Improve platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CheckMK, and internal tools.
• Automate operational processes using Bash, Python, Go, and Rust.
• Troubleshoot production incidents across infrastructure, networking, containers, and application layers.
• Support and optimise large‑scale, database‑driven systems (MySQL required; PostgreSQL a plus).
• Contribute to capacity planning, scaling strategies, and performance optimisation initiatives.
• Drive operational‑excellence improvements and incident‑reduction initiatives.
• Manage and optimise centralised logging using Elasticsearch, Filebeat, rsyslog, and Kibana.
• Maintain documentation and participate in a 24x7 on‑call rotation.
• Collaborate with development teams on tools development, service improvements, and change‑management activities.

Required profile

• Ability to work in a 24x7 on‑call rotation.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset and collaborative attitude.

Required skills

• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes (AWS EKS)
• Helm
• Karpenter
• ArgoCD
• GitOps CI/CD pipelines
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• CheckMK
• Bash
• Python
• Go
• Rust
• MySQL (PostgreSQL a plus)
• Elasticsearch
• Filebeat
• rsyslog
• Kibana