Team Lead, Product Platform (Payments)

Location: Ireland, Kerry; hybrid working with occasional travel to The hirify.global Innovation Centre in Kerry

Company

hirify.global operates payUnite payment platforms and a PCI DSS-scoped payments infrastructure hosted on Azure.

What you will do

• Lead delivery and operation of private, multi-zone Kubernetes clusters across regions and environments.
• Own GitOps delivery, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, alerting, and platform onboarding.
• Make architecture and engineering decisions while balancing reliability, security, cost, compliance, and delivery time.
• Prioritise stakeholder requests, plan capacity, allocate work, track delivery, and report risks and reliability measures.
• Lead on-call operations, incident investigation, postmortems, production support, and technical debt reduction.
• Line manage, coach, mentor, and help grow the newly formed product platform team.

Requirements

• Significant senior-level experience in cloud platform, DevOps, or site reliability engineering, including line management of engineers.
• Strong hands-on production experience operating and upgrading Kubernetes clusters, configuring workloads and ingress, and applying pod security, network policy, and admission controls.
• Experience with GitOps using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux, plus Helm or Kustomize, across multiple environments.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, ideally Terraform, including module design, state management, and pipeline-driven change.
• Working knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP sufficient to design infrastructure and collaborate with DBA, application, network, and security teams; Azure experience is not required, but willingness to learn and coach others is required.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, observability and alerting, production on-call rotations, alert tiering, and incident management.
• Ability to prioritise competing stakeholder demands, plan team capacity, allocate work, and make independent architecture and trade-off decisions.
• Experience in a regulated or security-sensitive environment, including PCI DSS or comparable controls and formal change control.
• Scripting and automation capability with Python, Bash, or PowerShell, plus excellent communication with technical, non-technical, and senior stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Microsoft Azure experience, workload identity and Kubernetes secrets management, or managed database services experience.
• Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience in payments, financial services, or other regulated industries, including PCI DSS audit evidence.
• Experience with Jira Service Management and structured postmortems.

Culture & Benefits

• Lead a newly formed team supporting a live PCI DSS-scoped payments platform.
• Work with private Kubernetes, GitOps, and infrastructure as code on Azure.
• Autonomy to shape planning, support, platform improvement, and engineering standards.
• Hybrid work in Ireland with occasional travel to Kerry.
• Equal opportunities employer with a supportive and inclusive work environment.