Cloud Platform Architect / Principal Platform Engineer

GCS Recruitment; Ireland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to drive the transformation of critical infrastructure into a modern, cloud-native environment.

You'll lead the design and migration across public cloud platforms, implementing Kubernetes platforms and IaC practices to improve resilience and scalability across the enterprise.

You will work on a large-scale modernization programme and coordinate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, automated cloud services.

Qualifications

• Architect and modernise core infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
• Produce production-grade Kubernetes platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Automate with Terraform and modern IaC practices.
• Lead migration from virtualised to cloud-native platforms.
• Build resilient CI/CD pipelines with robust tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and modernisation of core infra in cloud-native environments.
• Design and implement production-grade Kubernetes platforms across AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform and IaC.
• Design multi-cloud infrastructure patterns and service networking.
• Support migrations from virtualised to cloud-native platforms.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Partner with engineering to improve resilience, scalability, reliability.
• Champion an everything-as-code approach across infra and ops.

Skills

Kubernetes

Public cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Go

Python

Job description

Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Cloud Infrastructure | Kubernetes | Multi-Cloud | Infrastructure Modernisation

11 Months Fix-Term Contract with chances of conversion into permanent.

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to help drive the transformation of critical infrastructure services into a modern, cloud-native environment.

This role sits at the heart of a large-scale infrastructure modernisation programme, supporting the redesign, migration and operation of foundational platform services across public cloud environments.

You'll work on highly available, business-critical services while helping shape the future cloud operating model through automation, containerisation and infrastructure-as-code practices.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the architecture and modernisation of core infrastructure services within cloud-native environments
• Design and implement production-grade Kubernetes platforms across AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform and modern IaC practices
• Design multi-cloud infrastructure patterns and service networking solutions
• Support migration initiatives from traditional virtualised environments towards cloud-native platforms
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies and operational tooling
• Partner with engineering teams to improve resilience, scalability and platform reliability
• Champion an "everything-as-code" approach across infrastructure and operations

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Strong experience architecting and operating Kubernetes platforms in production
• Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Strong Linux systems engineering background
• Experience with Docker and container ecosystem technologies
• Understanding of cloud networking, service discovery and platform security
• Experience building automated deployment and operational workflows
• Development experience in Go, Python or similar languages

Nice To Have

• Crossplane experience
• Platform Engineering experience
• SRE or Reliability Engineering background
• Experience supporting critical shared services at scale
• Exposure to infrastructure modernisation or datacentre transformation programmes

Background

• 7+ years within Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, SRE or Cloud Architecture roles
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud transformations
• Experience leading architectural decisions and migration programmes

Why This Role?

You'll work on some of the most critical infrastructure services within the organisation, helping shape the next generation cloud platform while influencing architecture strategy across multiple technology domains.