Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Go & Automation

InterSystems Corporation; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

InterSystems Ireland invites a Kubernetes Developer to join our global infrastructure and platform engineering team in Dublin. You’ll build Go-based, Kubernetes-native platform software and help automate managed services and SaaS platforms.

You will collaborate with software engineers, SRE, DevOps and security teams to deliver reliable, secure tooling, implement RBAC defaults, CI/CD integration, and observability through logs and metrics.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, cloud engineering, or SRE.
• Experience developing in Go, or strong software engineering experience with the ability to work in Go.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, containers, Linux, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes APIs, CRDs, controllers, reconciliation loops, RBAC, events, status conditions, and resource lifecycle.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and code review.
• Working knowledge of Helm, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, Flux, or similar tooling.
• Understanding of Kubernetes security concepts including RBAC, secrets, namespaces, network policies, admission controls, and workload isolation.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Kubernetes-native software in Go, including controllers, CRDs, reconciliation logic, and automation components.
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, recovery, and other managed service workflows.
• Write maintainable Go code and develop unit, integration, and cluster-based tests.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, packaging, and releasing Kubernetes platform software.
• Integrate with Kubernetes networking, storage, ingress, certificates, scheduling, security, and cluster lifecycle capabilities.
• Contribute to automation using Helm, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, Flux, and related tooling.
• Implement secure defaults, least-privilege RBAC, secrets handling, workload isolation, and operational guardrails.
• Build observable and supportable software using logs, metrics, events, health checks, and status conditions.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, controller behaviour, failed reconciliations, deployments, and automation issues.
• Collaborate with engineering, SRE, security, and application teams, and contribute to documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Go development

Kubernetes

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

Git

RBAC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubebuilder

Helm

Terraform

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

InterSystems Ireland invites a Kubernetes Developer to join our global infrastructure and platform engineering team in Dublin. You’ll build Go-based, Kubernetes-native platform software and help automate managed services and SaaS platforms.

You will collaborate with software engineers, SRE, DevOps and security teams to deliver reliable, secure tooling, implement RBAC defaults, CI/CD integration, and observability through logs and metrics.