Cpl
DevOps Lead Engineer
CplIreland11 hours ago
Full-timeQuality Assurance, Information Technology

We’re recruiting for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational excellence for a modern, cloud-native SaaS platform.


This is a player–coach role — you’ll remain deeply technical while mentoring and guiding a small, distributed DevOps team.



What You’ll Do

  • Lead and mentor a global DevOps team while staying hands-on
  • Own CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment workflows
  • Design and operate Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
  • Manage Kubernetes (AKS) environments and service mesh architecture
  • Drive automation, reliability, and production readiness
  • Champion DevOps best practices across engineering teams
  • Support live systems, incident response, and continuous improvement


What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years in DevOps / SRE roles within cloud-native or SaaS environments
  • 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role
  • Strong Azure experience
  • Hands-on with:
  • Terraform (and Terragrunt)
  • Kubernetes (AKS), Helm
  • CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
  • GitOps (ArgoCD)
  • Bash scripting (Python or Go a plus)
  • Experience with Zero Trust security, RBAC, and PIM
  • Comfortable owning production systems and on-call responsibilities
  • Strong communicator and natural technical leader


Nice to Have

  • Kafka or event-driven systems
  • Microservices and distributed systems experience
  • OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
  • CosmosDB performance tuning
  • Azure-native services (API Management, Logic Apps)


Why Apply?

  • High-impact leadership role with real technical ownership
  • Influence DevOps strategy and platform reliability
  • Work on scalable, security-focused cloud systems
  • Collaborative, engineering-first environment

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