Platform Engineer

Pepper Advantage Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Dublin is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to ensure reliability and performance of their Azure infrastructure. In this hands-on role, you will implement platform services and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in agile system engineering within FinTech and is a strong advocate of infrastructure as code practices. This role offers a hybrid working model and a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in agile system engineering ideally in regulated FinTech.
• Excellent knowledge of Azure Cloud, Azure AD, and security in Azure.
• Proven track record of building reliable infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of Azure infrastructure using best tools.
• Design and configuration of CI/CD pipelines and monitoring dashboards.
• Collaboration with teams to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD methodologies

Containers

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Platform Engineer

Agency support not required for this role

About Pepper Advantage Ireland

Pepper Advantage Ireland has been instrumental in helping Irish individuals, businesses and investors navigate their financial journey since 2012. We manage over €19bn worth of assets and have a skilled team of more than 600 people across Dublin and Shannon. We’re here to service loans and mortgages which includes processing loan payments and, when needed, working with customers to resolve late payments or assist with financial difficulties. As part of the international Pepper Advantage Group, we combine local knowledge with global expertise. With operations across the UK, Europe and Southeast Asia, we employ over 3,500 people and have over €40bn in assets under management.

About the role

As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Prism products and supporting infrastructure in Azure. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll implement and optimise platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes for enterprise‑grade applications. The Platform Engineer should be a can‑do, high‑achieving individual with strong product and domain expertise, who thrives on collaboration and has experience building secure, resilient cloud infrastructure. You’ll champion engineering excellence and automation, foster best practices, and bring a genuine passion for technology and continuous improvement to everything you do.

Location

Dublin, Ireland
Permanent, Hybrid working model.

Your responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of Azure infrastructure using best tools and practices.
• Design and configuration of CI/CD pipelines, containers, virtual networks, and monitoring dashboards.
• Design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts for multi‑tenant setups.
• Performance monitoring and optimisation of Azure resources, including cost and performance advice.
• Implementation of governance policies: Azure AD, security, virtual networks, etc.
• Collaboration with development, test, and Scrum teams to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Your skills

• 4+ years of experience in delivering fast‑paced and agile system engineering ideally in regulated FinTech or payments/banking/wealth.
• Excellent knowledge of Azure Cloud, Azure AD, and security in Azure.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and tools (Terraform).
• Strong advocate of CI/CD methodologies, familiar with the Azure DevOps stack.
• Deep understanding of cloud artefacts/tools: containers, API management, event bus, app services, monitoring, etc.
• Standardised logging/metrics/tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana); built comprehensive dashboards and runbooks.
• Proven track record of building high‑performing and reliable infrastructures.

Success Metrics (what you will be measured on)

• DORA: Lead time, Deployment frequency, Change failure rate, MTTR.
• Reliability: SLO attainment (%), incident rate and severity mix, mean time to detect (MTTD).
• Quality: Escaped defects, defect density, automated test coverage, flaky test rate.
• Security/Compliance: Vulnerability SLA adherence, audit/control pass rate.
• Cost & Efficiency: Cloud unit economics, cost‑to‑serve, build time, onboarding time to first PR.

Pepper Advantage’s values and culture

Our mission is to help people succeed. Our clients, our customers, our employees. Our Values are ‘Can do’, ‘Balanced’ and ‘Real’. Pepper Advantage’s values support our vision, shape our culture and define how we interact with other employees and the attitudes we adopt towards our customers and clients. The values of Pepper Advantage support the organisation’s mission statement. Pepper Advantage’s unique outcome‑focused corporate culture aims to deliver fairness and value for clients and customers, consistently exceeding expectations in all measurable performance areas.

Pepper Advantage is an equal opportunities employer.

Role profiles are subject to change in line with business needs.