Jobs / Citco

Senior DevOps Engineer

Citco · Cork, C, Ireland
Cork, C, IrelandExp: 7+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive salary package and benefits
Location
Cork, C, Ireland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Own the architecture and technical direction of a Jenkins CI/CD platform and supporting tools for multi-cloud deployments across AWS and on-premises environments. Lead Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform and CloudFormation, Kubernetes migrations, observability and automation initiatives, and major incident response. Mentor engineers and shape the platform roadmap in partnership with development and IT operations teams.

Benefits

Career development opportunitiesEducational support

Qualifications

  • At least 7 years of hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, including technical leadership or mentoring.
  • Deep Jenkins expertise, including architecture, scaling, controller and agent management, plugins, and advanced troubleshooting.
  • Strong AWS experience, including EC2, VPC, IAM, auto-scaling, CloudWatch, and architecture design.
  • Advanced Terraform and CloudFormation experience, including defining standards and reviewing complex modules.
  • Strong AWS CodePipeline and large-scale CI/CD architecture experience.
  • Experience designing Helm charts and Kubernetes clusters, and leading workload migrations.
  • Hands-on experience with SonarQube, JFrog, or Octopus Deploy.
  • Experience with Kong infrastructure management and API gateway architecture.
  • Experience managing Code Assistant tools such as Kiro, including licensing and adoption.
  • Experience designing observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, Jaeger, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, networking, and container concepts.
  • Scripting and automation experience with Bash, Python, or similar.
  • Experience supporting on-call rotations and production incident response.
  • Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers.
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own Jenkins platform architecture, scaling strategy, and technical roadmap.
  • Resolve complex Jenkins, pipeline, and platform issues through root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
  • Establish and review Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Design AWS CodePipeline integrations and CI/CD strategy.
  • Guide architecture, upgrades, and roadmaps for platform tools including SonarQube, JFrog, Octopus Deploy, Kong, and Kiro.
  • Lead Kiro licensing, adoption, and usage governance.
  • Architect centralized logging, monitoring, and tracing across platforms.
  • Lead platform tool migrations to Kubernetes and review Helm charts and cluster designs.
  • Develop automation to reduce operational overhead.
  • Support on-call rotations and lead major incident response and post-incident reviews.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance and design reviews.
  • Translate business requirements into platform capabilities and technical strategy.
  • Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base standards.
  • Contribute to capacity planning, cost optimization, and vendor and licensing discussions.

Skills

AWSBashCloudFormationCloudWatchGrafanaHelmIAMJaegerJenkinsKongKubernetesLinuxLokiOctopus DeployOpenTelemetryPrometheusPythonSonarQubeTerraform

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate or ProfessionalAWS DevOps Engineer ProfessionalCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)Terraform Associate

Degrees

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science, or equivalent h

Industry

Financial servicesAlternative investment funds

Relocation

No