Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native Kubernetes

EggAI Technologies; Ireland; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EggAI is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud‑native Kubernetes platform for client projects. You will own the platform in production, collaborate with a small team, and work directly with client engineers in a structured delivery rhythm.

You will lead architecture discussions, drive IaC with Terraform, and implement CI/CD and GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD/Flux. Strong emphasis on observability, SLOs, security, and cost awareness across EU remote engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure / platform / SRE roles, at least 3 of them running production Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code in production: Terraform (primary), plus Helm or Kustomize.
• A major cloud in depth (AWS, GCP or Azure): networking, compute, managed databases, IAM and least‑privilege, and a habit of watching what it costs.
• CI/CD and GitOps: building pipelines and running ArgoCD, Flux or equivalent.
• Observability and reliability: metrics, logs and tracing (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar), SLOs, and on‑call incident response.
• Scripting and tooling: Bash, plus Python or Go
• Security as a first‑class concern: secrets management, supply‑chain and vulnerability scanning
• Client‑facing ability: can hold a technical conversation with a client architects and engineers

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the Kubernetes platform for the engagement, defined in Terraform — you own it in production, not just at handover
• Lead architecture discussions for your part of the platform, with the tech lead supporting you
• Take ownership: pick up the ambiguous problem, chase down the answer, and say so when something is going wrong
• Build the self‑service paths the delivery engineers use, so they aren’t blocked on you
• Own reliability for what you run — SLOs, observability, incident response, cost
• Work directly with the client's engineers, in a normal team rhythm: daily standups, planning, retrospectives, code and design review

Skills

SRE mindset

Clear written communication

Client-facing skills

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

AWS

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

EggAI is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud‑native Kubernetes platform for client projects. You will own the platform in production, collaborate with a small team, and work directly with client engineers in a structured delivery rhythm.

You will lead architecture discussions, drive IaC with Terraform, and implement CI/CD and GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD/Flux. Strong emphasis on observability, SLOs, security, and cost awareness across EU remote engagements.