Platform Engineer

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 27001), secrets management tools (Vault, Google Secret Manager), eBPF if you are into advanced networking.

Essential SkillsCloud 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.