Platform Lead — PCI-DSS Payments on Azure

Fexco; Munster; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Fexco is seeking an experienced Team Lead to drive the payUnite product platform on Azure. You will lead delivery, maintain reliability, and guide a growing team through hands-on engineering and strategic planning.

The role blends technical decision-making with people leadership, focusing on scalability, security, and PCI-compliant operations. You will work in Ireland with a hybrid model, collaborating across security, architecture, and application teams, and occasionally travel to Kerry.

Qualifications

• Significant senior-level cloud platform/DevOps/SRE experience with line management.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience: clusters, upgrades, security controls.
• Experience running GitOps delivery with ArgoCD or Flux, and Helm/Kustomize.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform preferred).
• Knowledge of at least one major cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability, alerting and on-call rotations.
• Ability to prioritise competing stakeholder demands and plan capacity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery and operation of the payUnite platform on Azure with Kubernetes clusters across regions.
• Own platform decisions and set engineering standards; review designs and unblock engineers.
• Line-manage engineers, provide technical and delivery leadership, and report progress to stakeholders.
• Maintain runbooks, documentation, and post-incident reviews; drive improvements and reduce toil.
• Collaborate with security, networking, architecture and DBA teams to ensure PCI readiness and compliance.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Azure

CI/CD

Security

Leadership

On-call

Communication

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Job description

Fexco is seeking an experienced Team Lead to drive the payUnite product platform on Azure. You will lead delivery, maintain reliability, and guide a growing team through hands-on engineering and strategic planning.

The role blends technical decision-making with people leadership, focusing on scalability, security, and PCI-compliant operations. You will work in Ireland with a hybrid model, collaborating across security, architecture, and application teams, and occasionally travel to Kerry.