Forward Role Recruitment
DevOps Engineer
Forward Role RecruitmentIreland10 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering

Senior DevOps Engineer


  • Dublin, hybrid
  • Salary flexible depending on experience
  • Equity potential


About the Company

Our client’s mission is to help investment advisers effortlessly build and scale truly custom model portfolios through a modern and intuitive platform. The business partners with advisers, asset managers, and TAMPs to deliver bespoke model portfolios and AI-powered investment solutions.

At the centre of the company’s offering is a proprietary AI engine that analyses over 8 billion data points daily 📊. This technology provides actionable insights that streamline workflows, inform better decision-making, and improve portfolio outcomes.


About the Role

The company is seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to take ownership of cloud infrastructure, reliability, and deployment platforms. This role will be responsible for designing and running the AWS + Kubernetes foundation, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring services are observable, secure, and cost-efficient.


The successful candidate will be joining a small, agile team where autonomy, ownership, and collaboration are essential.


🔑 Key Responsibilities

  • Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments ⚡
  • Manage and scale containerised applications with Kubernetes ☸️
  • Oversee AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS etc.) ☁️
  • Ensure services are reliable, secure, and performant 🔒
  • Collaborate with engineers on product features and infrastructure 🛠️
  • Develop and maintain Python-based backend services and APIs 🐍
  • Enable easy monitoring of services 📡
  • ✅ Requirements

    • 5+ years in DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles with strong Kubernetes and AWS experience
    • Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices
    • Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI etc.) and GitOps workflows
    • Confident troubleshooting Python REST services in production
    • Comfortable working in a small, fast-paced team with high ownership
    • Must hold a valid visa to work in Ireland (no sponsorship available) 🇮🇪
  • ✨ Nice-to-Haves

    • Exposure to financial services 💹
    • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) 📈

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