Platform Engineer

RECRUITERS; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

RECRUITERS in Dublin is seeking Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineers to modernise core infrastructure and transition traditional services into cloud-native environments. The role focuses on Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, with a strong automation-first mindset and hands-on coding in Go or Python.

The team will migrate traditional infrastructure to cloud-native environments running on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and resilience while delivering scalable production services.

Qualifications

• Senior infrastructure engineer with a strong Linux background.
• Experience across traditional infrastructure, Kubernetes and public cloud environments.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience with at least one major public cloud platform — AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong software engineering and automation-first mindset.
• Development experience with Go or Python, with Go desirable.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and modernise business-critical infrastructure services.
• Support migration of traditional infrastructure into Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
• Design, automate and operate highly available production infrastructure.
• Work across Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud and Infrastructure as Code environments.
• Develop automation and tooling to improve infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and adopt a strong software engineering approach to infrastructure.
• Support infrastructure migration and modernisation initiatives from design through to implementation.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues across distributed environments.
• Collaborate with platform, engineering and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable next-generation infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on Linux engineering experience.
• Senior-level experience across Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering or SRE.
• Experience managing mission-critical, highly available infrastructure services.
• Proven experience with infrastructure modernisation or migration.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with at least one major public cloud platform — AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong software engineering and automation-first mindset.
• Strong development experience with Python or Go, with Go particularly desirable.
• Experience working with CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills within large-scale production environments.

Skills

Linux engineering

Kubernetes

Go

Python

CI/CD

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Contract: 11 months with strong with to extend or convert.

Rate: Up to €92,000 per annum

Location: Dublin – Hybrid (2 Days)

We’re looking for Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineers to join a large-scale technology organisation focused on modernising business-critical infrastructure and transitioning traditional services into modern cloud-native environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with a strong Linux infrastructure background who is comfortable working across traditional infrastructure, Kubernetes and public cloud environments.

You’ll be working on highly available, production-critical services and helping transform how core infrastructure is designed, automated and delivered.

The Role

The team is responsible for modernising core infrastructure services including:

• DNS
• LDAP
• TCP/IP networking
• Core cloud infrastructure and platform services

A major focus will be on migrating traditional infrastructure into cloud-native environments running on Kubernetes, while ensuring services remain highly available, scalable and operationally resilient.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer and modernise business-critical infrastructure services.
• Support the migration of traditional infrastructure into Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
• Design, automate and operate highly available production infrastructure.
• Work across Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud and Infrastructure as Code environments.
• Develop automation and tooling to improve infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and adopt a strong software engineering approach to infrastructure.
• Support infrastructure migration and modernisation initiatives from design through to implementation.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues across distributed environments.
• Collaborate with platform, engineering and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable next-generation infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on Linux engineering experience.
• Senior-level experience across Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering or SRE.
• Experience managing mission-critical, highly available infrastructure services.
• Proven experience with infrastructure modernisation or migration.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with at least one major public cloud platform — AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong software engineering and automation-first mindset.
• Strong development experience with Python or Go, with Go particularly desirable.
• Experience working with CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills within large-scale production environments.

Ideal Candidate

You’ll ideally be someone who has grown from a strong Linux / Systems / Infrastructure Engineering background into modern platform and cloud engineering.

You should be comfortable moving between the traditional and modern infrastructure worlds — understanding how core services such as DNS, LDAP and networking operate at a fundamental level, while also being able to work with Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud platforms and automation.

The ideal candidate will enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems, writing code to automate them, and helping move critical services towards a more modern cloud-native architecture.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to work on large-scale infrastructure modernisation, helping transform some of the fundamental services that underpin enterprise technology environments.

You’ll have exposure to Linux, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, automation and software engineering, while working on systems where reliability and availability are critical.

If you’re a senior infrastructure engineer who enjoys building, automating and modernising rather than simply maintaining legacy infrastructure, we’d like to hear from you.