2 days ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the Internal Developer Platform vision, roadmap, architecture, and end-to-end execution.
- Build the service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, developer portals, and CI/CD integrations.
- Own the developer experience from service creation through production observability.
- Work across Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, NGA product teams, and IFS R&D domains to deliver integrated developer experiences.
- Define platform standards and drive measurable adoption using onboarding time, self-service completion, platform NPS, time-to-first-deployment, and DORA metrics.
- Integrate authentication and authorisation services into the IDP self-service model.
- Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver a coherent, reliable, and secure developer-facing platform.
- Establish developer feedback loops through surveys, usage analytics, office hours, and prioritisation based on collected data.
- Influence platform strategy at the architectural level and represent the developer platform in technical leadership forums.
- Mentor and technically guide Principal and Senior platform engineers without direct people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering.
- At least 3 years in a senior/staff individual-contributor or technical-lead role.
- End-to-end ownership experience with an Internal Developer Platform or developer portal such as Backstage, Port, Cortex, or an equivalent.
- Experience bringing developer platforms into production at enterprise scale and driving sustained adoption.
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, Terraform or Crossplane, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability.
- Experience shipping golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardisation at scale.
- Production Kubernetes experience, including deployment, operation, and incident troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Go, React, Next.js, Kafka or RedPanda, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes on AKS.
- Experience working in large, distributed engineering organisations and building platform trust.
- Ability to communicate platform value clearly to engineers, product managers, engineering leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications.
- Practical experience using AI tools and explaining their use cases and limitations.
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid work opportunities are available.
- The role offers the opportunity to work on a greenfield Internal Developer Platform at enterprise scale.
- The position is a highly senior individual-contributor role with significant influence over platform strategy and developer experience.
- The company offers a global, diverse environment focused on collaboration, sustainability, and worldwide impact.
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About IFS
IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.