Fexco Tech are currently recruiting for a Platform Engineer to join their team.
This role is a permanent, full-time position with the opportunity to work from our offices based in Killorglin, Co.
Kerry with flexibility to work a hybrid model.
The Role
We need someone to build and run our cloud infrastructure, the actual platforms and tooling that let engineering teams ship products without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.
You will be working primarily in GCP and Azure, writing Terraform, managing Kubernetes clusters, and building the automation that makes everything self-service.
If you have done platform engineering before, you know what this looks like, infrastructure that deploys through pipelines, scales automatically, and doesn\'t need manual intervention every time someone needs something.
We\'re building cloud native infrastructure where manual configuration doesn\'t scale.
You need to think Infrastructure as Code first, if your instinct is to click through a console to fix something, this is not the role for you.
Core Responsibilities
Build and maintain GCP infrastructure and Azure using Terraform - everything as code
Run Kubernetes clusters (GKE, AKS) with Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD for GitOps
Maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments
Set up monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus - dashboards, alerts, the works
Automate everything using Bash, Python/Ruby/Go, and Packer for images
Design cloud networking: VPCs, peering, VPNs, network policies, SDNs
Implement IAM/RBAC and authentication (SAML, OIDC, LDAP), we\'re in financial services so security matters
Manage platform services: DNS (Cloudflare), messaging (PubSub, Apache MQ), API Gateways
Write documentation, build self-service tooling, and share on-call duties with the team
Nice to Have
GCP certs, Azure certs, Kubernetes CKA, experience in financial services or regulated environments, compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, ISO *****), secrets management tools (Vault, Google Secret Manager), eBPF if you are into advanced networking.
Essential Skills
Cloud Platforms
Production experience with GCP/Azure core services (GCE, GKE/AKS, VPC's, Cloud IAM, PubSub, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, etc)
Hands-on with Cloud VPN, VPC peering, and network policies
Know how Security Command Center works
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Terraform is your main tool - you write modules, not just use them
Strong Bash scripting (not copy-paste from Stack Overflow)
Python, Ruby, or Go for anything Bash can\'t handle
Used Packer for building images
Kubernetes & GitOps
Production Kubernetes experience (GKE or AKS)
Helm charts, Kustomize configs, ArgoCD deployments
Container security basics covered
CI/CD & Version Control
Git beyond basic commits
Built actual GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Know what makes pipelines good versus bad
Networking & Security
TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, BGP, L2-L7 fundamentals
Set up network policies and IAM/RBAC
Implemented SAML, OIDC, or LDAP
Monitoring
Grafana and Prometheus in production
Build useful dashboards and alerts that don\'t cause noise
What We Offer
Competitive salary, pension scheme, professional development budget for certifications and training, cloud platform learning resources.
Hybrid working at our Kerry office.
The team is agile enough that you will have a real impact on how we build infrastructure, but big enough that you are not the only person who knows how anything works.
We are trying to do platform engineering properly by building self-service capabilities, not being a ticket queue for other teams.
Note
: This role requires occasional travel to our Kerry office for team meetings and collaboration.
While day-to-day work can be hybrid, you need to be willing to travel to Kerry when needed.
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