Senior Go Engineer - Kubernetes Operators & Automation

InterSystems; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

InterSystems in Ireland seeks a senior Go developer to design, build, and operate Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, and automation for scalable platforms. You will collaborate with Kubernetes architects, SRE, and cloud operations to implement production-grade software with strong security and reliability practices.

You will lead automation efforts, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Helm, and infrastructure automation, and mentor engineers while aligning with engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software, platform, cloud, DevOps, infrastructure automation, or SRE engineering.
• Strong production development experience with Go.
• Hands-on experience building Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, admission webhooks, or similar Kubernetes-native software.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes APIs, reconciliation patterns, RBAC, finalizers, status conditions, and object lifecycle.
• Experience supporting production Kubernetes environments and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, Linux, containers, networking, storage, and Kubernetes troubleshooting.
• Experience applying Kubernetes security practices.
• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring or influencing other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, APIs, and automation using Go.
• Automate provisioning, upgrades, scaling, recovery, configuration, and other platform lifecycle workflows.
• Build reliable, observable, secure, and resilient controllers handling retries, drift, failures, and cluster state changes.
• Develop strong automated test coverage and contribute to CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, and infrastructure automation.
• Integrate platform software across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises Kubernetes environments.
• Apply secure Kubernetes practices including RBAC, secrets management, admission controls, and workload isolation.
• Improve platform reliability through observability, troubleshooting, post-incident improvements, and operational automation.
• Mentor engineers and help establish engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Operators

CI/CD

GitOps

Helm

RBAC

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

Terraform

Istio

Tools

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

Terraform

Istio

Job description

InterSystems in Ireland seeks a senior Go developer to design, build, and operate Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, and automation for scalable platforms. You will collaborate with Kubernetes architects, SRE, and cloud operations to implement production-grade software with strong security and reliability practices.

You will lead automation efforts, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Helm, and infrastructure automation, and mentor engineers while aligning with engineering standards.