Platform Engineer: Go & Kubernetes Automation Lead

Penta Consulting Ltd; Ireland; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 145,000; Part time

Job summary

Penta Consulting Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and support Kubernetes-based managed services and SaaS platforms in Ireland. You will build Operators, controllers, CRDs, and APIs with Go, and craft automation for provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and lifecycle management.

You will lead CI/CD initiatives, collaborate with Platform Eng., SRE, Cloud Ops, and Architecture teams, and improve observability and security across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Software/Platform Engineering or related field.
• Strong Go and Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD, Helm, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Linux, containers, networking, and storage knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, and APIs using Go.
• Develop automation for provisioning, upgrades, scaling, recovery, and lifecycle of platform services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and release processes.
• Collaborate with Platform Eng., SRE, Cloud Ops, and Architecture teams to enforce standards.
• Improve observability, reliability, security, and efficiency across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

CI/CD

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Linux

Containers

Tools

Operator SDK

Terraform

Argo CD

Flux

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

EKS

AKS

GKE

Rancher

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

CloudWatch

Azure Monitor

Job description

Penta Consulting Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and support Kubernetes-based managed services and SaaS platforms in Ireland. You will build Operators, controllers, CRDs, and APIs with Go, and craft automation for provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and lifecycle management.

You will lead CI/CD initiatives, collaborate with Platform Eng., SRE, Cloud Ops, and Architecture teams, and improve observability and security across hybrid environments.