Senior Platform Architect

MCS Group Consultancy; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MCS Group Ireland is partnering with a scaleup technology business in Dublin to hire a Senior Platform Engineer. You will help build a secure, scalable Azure platform and shape the cloud foundations to support rapid growth in a regulated environment.

You'll work closely with engineering and product teams to implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CI/CD with Azure DevOps, and robust observability. This hands-on role offers significant impact on platform direction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform/DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
• Experience in regulated environments is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Automate deployment and platform processes.
• Work across containers, networking, APIs, and event-driven architecture.
• Build monitoring, logging and observability across the platform.
• Improve platform performance, resilience and availability.
• Strengthen cloud security, identity and access controls.
• Support multi-tenant cloud environments.
• Monitor and optimise Azure performance and cost.
• Create dashboards, alerts and runbooks.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, QA and Product teams as the platform scales.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

Regulated environments

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Senior Platfrom Engineer Dublin City Centre MCS Group Ireland is working exclusively with a scaleup technology business in Dublin on a really exciting Platform Engineer opportunity. The business is entering a major phase of growth, backed by significant investment and with ambitious plans to scale its core product and technology platform. They're now looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join the team and help build the cloud foundations needed to support that next stage of growth. This is not a maintenance-focused role. You'll be joining at a point where there is real investment going into the platform, giving you the opportunity to influence how it is built, deployed, monitored and scaled.

The Role

You'll work closely with the wider engineering and product teams to build a secure, resilient and highly scalable Azure platform. The role will involve:

• Building and evolving cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Designing and improving CI/CD pipelines through Azure DevOps
• Automating deployment and platform processes
• Working across containers, networking, APIs, application services and event-driven architecture
• Building monitoring, logging and observability across the platform
• Improving platform performance, resilience and availability
• Strengthening cloud security, identity and access controls
• Supporting multi-tenant cloud environments
• Monitoring and optimising Azure performance and cost
• Creating dashboards, alerts and operational runbooks
• Working closely with Software Engineering, QA and Product teams as the platform scales

Requirements

You'll ideally have 5+ year's experience within Platform, DevOps, Cloud or Infrastructure Engineering, with strong hands-on Azure experience. Given the nature of the product, they are particularly interested in people who have worked within a highly regulated environment, ideally across areas such as:

• Financial Services
• FinTech
• Banking
• Payments
• Wealth Management
• Insurance
• Other regulated technology environments

Strong experience across the following would be ideal:

• Microsoft Azure
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Azure DevOps CI/CD and deployment automation
• Azure networking, security and identity
• Containers and cloud-native infrastructure
• Monitoring and observability
• Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar tooling
• Building secure, highly available and scalable production environments

Why this one is interesting

This is an opportunity to join a business at a genuinely exciting stage. The product is scaling, significant investment is being made into the technology function and the platform needs to grow considerably to support where the business is going next. You'll have the chance to make a real impact on the technical direction of the platform rather than stepping into an environment where everything has already been decided. For someone who enjoys building, improving and scaling cloud platforms, particularly within regulated environments, this could be a really strong next move. TPBN1_IJ