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Platform Engineer

smartbox

DublinFull-timeMid LevelOn-site

Job Description

Platform Engineer – Technical Operations (Dublin)

Responsible for maintaining all user-facing and production systems, ensuring 24/7/365 uptime and improving workflows to deliver best-in-class experiences.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and reusable modules.
  • Operate and enhance production Kubernetes clusters using Helm, Karpenter, ArgoCD and AWS EKS.
  • Implement and maintain GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
  • Improve platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, CheckMK and internal tools.
  • Automate operational processes using Bash, Python, Go and Rust.
  • Troubleshoot production incidents across infrastructure, networking, containers and application layers.
  • Support and optimise large-scale, database-driven systems (MySQL required; PostgreSQL a plus).
  • Contribute to capacity planning, scaling strategies and performance optimisation initiatives.
  • Drive operational excellence improvements and incident reduction initiatives.
  • Manage and optimise centralised logging using Elasticsearch, Filebeat, rsyslog and Kibana.
  • Maintain documentation and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
  • Collaborate with development teams on tools development, service improvements and change management activities.

About You

  • Own accountability and act with integrity, treating challenges as opportunities.
  • Bring bold ideas, challenge the status‑quo and take smart risks.
  • Maintain a solutions‑focused mindset, inspiring others with positivity and resilience.
  • Build authentic relationships, foster collaboration and create space for diverse voices.

Skills & Experience – Essential

  • 3+ years of experience in technical support, systems administration or platform/infrastructure engineering.
  • Proficiency in LAMP/LNMP environments.
  • Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Experience with modern CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or equivalent).Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting capability.
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, TLS, caching).
  • Experience with cloud automation on AWS and Terraform.
  • Experience with Elasticsearch and log management.
  • Scripting skills in Python, Bash or similar languages.
  • Experience administering MySQL databases.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Skills & Experience – Desirable

  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef/Cinc.
  • PostgreSQL database experience.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to improve code quality and establishing AI‑related workflows.

What We Offer

  • Hybrid work: 2–3 remote days plus 20 days abroad per year.
  • Essentials: health cover, pension, tax‑saver benefit, extra leave.
  • Flexible benefits: personalise with health, wellbeing & learning options.
  • Diversity & Inclusion commitment: parental leave, Inclusive Day, gender equity in rewards.
  • L&D Support: Study Assistance and Study Leave.
  • Unbox Your World: One day leave per year as short notice + paid sabbatical after 5 years.
  • Transparency: clear, fair salary bands and career levels.

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