Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer, Dublin

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Date: 4 Jun 2025

Location: Dublin, IE, IE

Company: Allied Irish Bank

Location/Office Policy: Central Park, Hybrid(Remote Centric)

• Are you an experienced Platform Engineer looking to further your career within a leading financial services group?
• Do you want to be a part of a high performing team delivering technical excellence?

• Are you Customer focussed with a drive for continual improvement?

What is the Role:

The role presents an exciting and challenging opportunity to a Lead Platform Engineer to work in a dynamic workplace environment leading the reliability, scalability and performance of our critical customer systems.

This is a superb opportunity for someone who wants to develop and enhance their skillset. You will be working within a high performing technical team to automate infrastructure, design & implement observability and always ensure a high standard of reliability across our platform.

Key accountabilities;

• Lead cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain a DevOps framework that promotes continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. 
• Lead the Design, build, and systems configuration management required for efficient software development and deployment, including servers, certificates, networks, and monitoring tools. 
• Collaborate with multiple vendors to solve complex environment and application issues.
• Lead the development and management of Ansible playbooks and roles for automating and application deployment for various environments.
• Lead the governance and control of Production and staging environments.
• Create and maintain documentation, guidelines, and standard operating procedures to ensure proper knowledge transfer.
• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvements, and implement tools and technologies to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and reduce manual efforts. 
• Solid understanding of cloud-based architectures, services, and deployment models. 
• Ideal candidate will have solid hands-on (coding) experience in modern, CI/CD practices/DevOps paradigms, Systems Engineering best practices and principles, administration of modern/distributed SCM systems.

What you Will Bring;

• Experience in leading the management of modern Site Reliability Engineering practise
• Knowledge & experience with Development Tools: GIT, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc).
• Experience in Automated build and deployments using Jenkins, Ansible, Bitbucket, JIRA etc.
• Strong working experience automating with Python, PowerShell, Bash, YAML, JSON, Ansible, or industry equivalents.
• Knowledge & experience in Docker Containers, Docker Management platforms such as Kubernetes
• Leadership knowledge of networking and devices (Load Balancers, SSL/TLS, TCP/IP, VPNs, Firewalls, Proxies, DNS)
• Knowledge & experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Nagios, Grafana, etc
• Knowledge or experience with secret management technologies such as Venafi, Vault, CyberArk.
• Knowledge or experience working with general Linux administration.

Why Work for AIB 

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

Customer First:

Puts the customer at the heart of what we do across the organisation; builds strong and effective relationships to enable the success of our customers and communities, embraces customer feedback and insights to inform decisions, developments and customer offerings.

Ensures Accountability:

Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and own the outcome; Acts with a clear sense of ownership aligned to goals for your role and team.

Breath of Technical Knowledge:

Effectively leverages broad knowledge of the technical disciplines within own area of expertise, as well as the organisation's policies, procedures, programmes and tools, to develop and implement solutions.

Systems and Technology Integration:

Possesses expertise in integrating applications, databases, and technology platforms to create effective cohesive solutions; designs and manages networks for efficient communication; implements and maintains IT systems to meet organisational goals, and plans, delivers and controls IT infrastructure for optimal performance.

Dev Sec Ops:

Automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery.

Technical Leadership:

Provides thought leadership and direction while managing, reviewing and conducting the day-to-day work in a specific technical domain area; demonstrates strategic thinking to align technical solutions with broader business goals; applies critical thinking to analyse issues and develop innovative solutions to problems within the specific domain.

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Tim at careers@aib.ie for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Disclaimer: 

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Application deadline : Wednesday the 25th of June 2025

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