Remuneration
Not specified
Location
G, Ireland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Principal DevOps Engineer leads the evolution of cloud platforms, platform engineering, and operational excellence across an enterprise engineering environment. The role drives GitOps, SRE, AI-enabled automation, and self-service developer capabilities, while improving delivery, reliability, and observability using AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and tools such as Argo CD, Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Qualifications
- At least 9 years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms and distributed systems.
- At least 3 years of experience building and operating cloud-native AWS solutions, including modernization and migration initiatives.
- At least 3 years of software development experience with Python, Java, or Node.js, focused on automation and engineering best practices.
- At least 2 years of hands-on GitOps experience with Argo CD, Flux CD, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized application platforms.
- Experience building and operating Internal Developer Platforms and enabling self-service engineering.
- Advanced Kubernetes administration and application delivery experience.
- Experience supporting mission-critical production environments with a focus on availability, reliability, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead adoption of GitOps and platform engineering practices to improve deployment reliability, scalability, governance, and developer experience.
- Drive AI-enabled DevOps initiatives that reduce operational toil and improve engineering productivity through intelligent automation.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security teams to develop DevOps capabilities incorporating GitOps, AIOps, and AI-driven operations.
- Define and execute reliability and observability strategies for highly available, performant critical systems.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networks, and cloud platforms.
- Mentor engineers and technical leaders in reliability engineering, observability, automation, and cloud-native practices.
Skills
AnsibleArgo RolloutsArgo CDAWSBashCloudFormationDatadogDockerFluxGitHubGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsOpenSearchOpenTelemetryPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraformGitHub Actions
Degrees
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technMaster's degree preferred
Work schedule
On-call rotation may be required
Industry
Financial services
Relocation
No