Senior DevOps Engineer

Job: Principal DevOps Engineer

Location: North Dublin

Onsite Requirement: 1-2 days per week

Type: Contract / Perm

Term: Min 12 months

Salary: €90-95k

We are looking for ambitious Senior DevOps Engineers to act as a principal for the team. For the role you'll step into a hands-on management position where you'll guide our team through the businesses its evolving cloud journey. It's a hands-on role leading technical initiatives leading and growing a skilled team. You will be at the heart of transformation, blending strategic oversight with real-world execution, this is an exciting job that will have you working at the cutting edge of technology.

Key responsibilities & duties include:

• Monitor and optimise cloud resources to ensure they deliver peak performance cost-efficiently. Automate the provisioning and scaling of cloud infrastructure to streamline processes
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines to support seamless software releases. Facilitate continuous feedback loops to ensure collaboration between development and operations teams
• Coordinate and manage a team across different functions to ensure unified software delivery efforts. Set a precedent by adopting new technologies and practices within the DevOps domain to lead the team by example
• Establish and enforce best practices for system maintenance and swift troubleshooting.
• Oversee capacity planning, ensuring the system scales and meets performance requirements

Required Skills & Experience:

• AWS Certified and extensive AWS experience
• Principal-level experience with cloud infrastructure management
• Extensive experience in DevOps
• Proficiency in automation tools like Terraform and one coding language e.g. Python, Java or other
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to optimise cloud resource usage for cost and performance
• Demonstrated management in managing technical teams
• Experience with overseeing diverse, cross-functional project teams
• Past success in establishing and facilitating the adoption of best practices in DevOps