Lead Platform Engineer — AWS & DevOps, 4 days/week Dublin

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Dublin; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MCS Group is partnering with an Irish technology startup to hire an experienced Platform Engineer to own the platform engineering capability. You will work between infrastructure and software engineering, designing reusable platform capabilities and improving developer experience.

Based in Dublin, the role is on-site four days per week, with hands-on responsibilities and potential to grow the platform team as the product scales.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing cloud networking, security and deployment environments.
• Ability to write code and work with application engineering teams.
• Experience with C# and .NET environments, or quick learning ability.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the company's AWS platform and platform capabilities.
• Own areas including ECS, VPC networking, IAM, subnets, cloud security and reliability.
• Build and improve infrastructure using IaC such as Terraform.
• Standardise environments, deployment processes and shared platform capabilities.
• Improve CI/CD using Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Develop internal tools, platform APIs, reusable libraries and engineering frameworks.
• Improve developer experience across the wider engineering team.
• Strengthen observability with Grafana and Prometheus.
• Support incident response and improve long-term platform resilience.
• Work closely with .NET teams on shared challenges.
• Mentor and manage the existing DevOps Engineer and grow the team.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Leadership

Hands-on engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

MCS Group is partnering with an Irish technology startup to hire an experienced Platform Engineer to own the platform engineering capability. You will work between infrastructure and software engineering, designing reusable platform capabilities and improving developer experience.

Based in Dublin, the role is on-site four days per week, with hands-on responsibilities and potential to grow the platform team as the product scales.