Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer (Infra Modernisation)

GCS Recruitment; Ireland; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to modernise and transform core enterprise services, combining traditional infrastructure with cloud-native platforms. The role focuses on building scalable, automated cloud infrastructure and advancing migration initiatives across large technology environments.

The ideal candidate will bring strong Linux administration, multi-cloud experience, IaC expertise, and a track record of delivering highly available production systems, with

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration and engineering experience.
• Public cloud experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform knowledge.
• Container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Automation and scripting using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and management experience.
• Understanding of networking and enterprise infrastructure services.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments.

Responsibilities

• Modernise critical infrastructure services and support migration programmes.
• Design, build and maintain highly available cloud-hosted platforms.
• Support containerisation initiatives across internal services and tooling.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and automation best practices.
• Develop operational tooling and deployment workflows.
• Improve platform resilience, observability and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to evolve infrastructure toward scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure transformation projects.

Skills

Linux systems

Public cloud platforms

Terraform / IaC

Docker / Kubernetes

Automation scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Networking fundamentals

Production readiness

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to modernise and transform core enterprise services, combining traditional infrastructure with cloud-native platforms. The role focuses on building scalable, automated cloud infrastructure and advancing migration initiatives across large technology environments.

The ideal candidate will bring strong Linux administration, multi-cloud experience, IaC expertise, and a track record of delivering highly available production systems, with