Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer Our client is a well-established financial services organisation with a significant engineering presence in Ireland. They are expanding their Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team and looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help shape and own the shared services that the wider engineering organisation depends on. The Role This is a platform engineering role, not DevOps. Application teams own their own pipelines; your focus is the paved roads they run on - the multi-tenant Kubernetes platform, internal developer platform (IDP), cloud networking, identity, and policy-as-code. You will own major platform initiatives from brief to production, set technical standards, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and partner with architecture and security on cross-cutting decisions. IaC-first culture. If your instinct is to click through a console, this role is not for you. Key Responsibilities - Design and evolve a multi-tenant AKS platform: tenancy model, upgrade strategy, operator ecosystem, service mesh - Build and maintain services for the internal platform catalog - Architect Terraform module hierarchies and set IaC standards for the team - Contribute to zero-trust networking, cloud identity, and policy-as-code - Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through reviews and pairing - Lead incident response for platform systems and contribute to the on-call rota Essential Skills - Deep production experience on a major public cloud (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP considered) - Designed and operated multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms at scale - Terraform is your primary tool - you design module hierarchies, not just write modules - Fluent in Python for platform tooling; you treat platform code as software - Strong cloud networking: hub-and-spoke, peering, Private Link, egress controls - GitOps mindset; production experience with ArgoCD or equivalent - Hands-on with policy tooling: Kyverno, OPA, or equivalent - Comfortable in regulated environments (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001) - Strong communicator; writes architectural documents that become team references Nice to Have - CKA or CKS certification - Azure, AWS, or GCP certifications - Experience with secrets management (Vault, cloud-native KMS) - Familiarity with eBPF / Cilium - Financial services or regulated industry background Package & Location - Salary up to €110,000 depending on experience - Hybrid working - primarily remote with occasional travel to the Kerry office - Permanent role, based in Ireland Reperio Human Capital acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business. Skills: Platform Kubernetes Terraform Azure GCP LNKD1_IJ