Sustainability that means business

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering group. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, building, and continuously improving the foundational platforms, tooling, and automation that enable our product engineering teams to deliver software efficiently, securely, and at scale. This is a hands-on engineering position where you will contribute directly to the systems and frameworks that underpin the entire organisation’s delivery lifecycle.

You will work across multiple domains, including cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, developer experience, automation, container orchestration, event streaming and observability. Your focus will be on creating robust, reusable, and scalable platform capabilities that remove friction, standardise best practices, and support a modern engineering ecosystem. By enabling teams with well‑designed tooling and infrastructure, you will help accelerate delivery, reduce operational overhead, and increase reliability across the organisation.

Who we are

Sustainability software specialist, AMCS, is headquartered in Ireland, with offices in Europe, the USA, and Australasia. With over 1,300 highly skilled employees across 22 countries, we specialize in delivering technology solutions to facilitate a carbon neutral future.

What we do

Our innovative SaaS solutions increase efficiency and boost sustainability in resource-intensive industries. Over 5,000 customers across 23 countries already benefit from our Performance Sustainability software, ensuring we deliver practical solutions for improved profitability and environmental resilience across the globe.

Our people:

AMCS offers team members more than just a job, but an opportunity to map out a career with a company that is growing, evolving and setting out new ways of working that are having a positive impact on the world around us. AMCS was established in Ireland and holds onto those local roots and ‘start-up’ mentality with a culture of connection. Connection to our work, our customers, our colleagues and our community that creates a working environment that fosters openness, collaboration and creativity.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform architecture & development

Design, build, and maintain scalable platform services, tooling, and automation to support product engineering teams.
Develop high-quality, reusable frameworks and infrastructure components.
Contribute to and influence platform architecture, technology selection, and long-term roadmap.

Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability

Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using IaC (e.g., Terraform, Bicep).
Implement highly reliable, resilient, and secure systems following SecOps and DevOps best practices.
Drive application improvements in observability (metrics, logging, tracing) and system reliability.

Developer Experience & Enablement

Develop internal tools, automation, and workflows that improve engineering productivity.
Partner with engineering teams to understand friction points and remove barriers.
Champion best practices around CI/CD, event streaming, testing automation, and deployment strategies.

Security & Compliance

Integrate security controls and guardrails into platform capabilities.
Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance and safe-by-default designs.

Collaboration & Leadership

Mentor and guide product engineers in adopting platform systems and best practices.
Contribute technical discussions, design reviews, and cross-team initiatives.
Drive a culture of continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and ownership.

Qualifications and personal attributes

5+ years of software engineering experience, with expertise in building platforms, infrastructure, or foundational systems.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript, C#, Java).
Deep experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
Experience with event streaming
Good background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Expertise with CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps).
Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and system design.
Experience deploying and automating Confluent Kafka infrastructure (self-managed or cloud) using IaC and modern DevOps practices, with strong understanding of partitioning, replication, and stream processing patterns.
Experience with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).

Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) or platform-as-a-product.
Familiarity with security hardening, zero-trust architectures, or cloud governance.
Experience working in high-scale, high-availability environments.

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