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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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