Senior Platform & Cloud Systems Engineer

Reference: 661999_1785142713

Public Cloud | Automation | Large-Scale Infrastructure

An exciting opportunity for experienced engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and building scalable cloud platforms.

You'll join a growing engineering team responsible for delivering reliable infrastructure services across global cloud environments. This role combines cloud engineering, systems engineering and platform design, making it ideal for engineers who enjoy both building and operating production systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Support large-scale platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Build automation frameworks and operational tooling
  • Enhance observability, reliability and platform performance
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment processes
  • Develop infrastructure tooling with Python
  • Contribute to platform modernisation initiatives

Core Requirements

  • Strong experience within Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering
  • Proven experience delivering cloud infrastructure at scale
  • AWS and/or Azure expertise
  • Experience supporting production-critical environments
  • Strong automation mindset
  • Python scripting or software development capability
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Additional Experience

  • GCP
  • Containerisation and Kubernetes
  • Go or Rust
  • AI/LLM technologies
  • Enterprise-scale infrastructure environments

What Success Looks Like

You'll be able to clearly demonstrate:

  • Infrastructure you've personally designed and deployed
  • Platforms you've supported in production
  • Automation you've introduced
  • Scale you've worked at
  • The business impact of your engineering decisions

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

£92,000.00 - £120,000.00
Per annum
GBP92000 - GBP120000 per annum + 25 annual leave

Ireland

Fixed Term Contract

Added 27/07/2026
Reference: 661999_1785142713

Senior Platform & Cloud Systems Engineer

Ireland
Fixed Term Contract

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