Cloud Platform Engineer – Azure or AWS & Kubernetes

Solas IT Recruitment; Limerick; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Solas IT Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Cloud / Platform Engineer with strong experience in either Azure or AWS to design, build and improve cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes environments. You will work closely with development teams, taking requirements through to implementation and supporting the platforms you build in production.

Using an SRE approach, you will improve reliability, automate recurring tasks and resolve production problems at their source, helping our cloud platform scale

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, building and supporting either Azure or AWS platforms.
• Understand compute, networking, storage and identity services and how they integrate.
• Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes workloads (AKS or EKS).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools to diagnose problems.
• Experience supporting Windows and Linux environments.
• Scripting and automation experience.
• Strong cloud security understanding and impact of infrastructure changes.
• Clear communication with development teams.
• Ability to explain built solutions and production support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure and maintain Azure or AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage and IAM.
• Collaborate with developers to translate requirements into infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Build, operate and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments (AKS/EKS).
• Investigate production incidents involving cloud services and dependencies.
• Resolve connectivity issues, performance bottlenecks, and configuration problems.
• Identify root causes and implement changes to reduce recurring incidents.
• Develop monitoring and observability with logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts.
• Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using scripting (Python helpful).
• Improve platform resilience, security and maintainability.
• Manage permissions, patching, and risk management.
• Reduce manual processes and document platform designs and procedures.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Python scripting

CI/CD

Windows/Linux

Monitoring tools

Security best practices

Tools

AKS

EKS

Backstage

Job description

Solas IT Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Cloud / Platform Engineer with strong experience in either Azure or AWS to design, build and improve cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes environments. You will work closely with development teams, taking requirements through to implementation and supporting the platforms you build in production.

Using an SRE approach, you will improve reliability, automate recurring tasks and resolve production problems at their source, helping our cloud platform scale