25 days ago
Letterkenny, IrelandSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Build scalable applications and platform capabilities supporting Portfolio Management, Compliance, Finance, Data Governance, Operational Risk, and Human Resources teams.
- Standardize CI/CD with GitHub Actions by creating reusable workflows and composite actions, defining runner strategies, and enforcing environment protections, approvals, and quality gates.
- Automate builds, testing, security checks, progressive delivery, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and developer self-service.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation and Terraform and establish GitOps-based deployment and environment promotion workflows.
- Define guardrails for configuration, secrets, change management, access controls, and platform hardening across environments.
- Partner with engineering and leadership on FinOps practices including cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, showback/chargeback, rightsizing, scheduling, and cloud spend optimization.
- Align DevSecOps and Security Operations practices, including detection and response, incident triage, containment, postmortems, audit-ready logging, and monitoring.
- Define and operationalize SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call readiness, runbooks, automated remediation, and service health dashboards.
- Collaborate with development teams to understand design challenges, propose technical solutions, and assist with system implementation.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of proven experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
- Strong experience deploying, managing, and monitoring services in AWS and Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Git, GitHub, and feature branching strategies.
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms, especially GitHub Actions, with familiarity migrating from or integrating Jenkins.
- Understanding of networking, DNS, routing, and messaging between services.
- Experience with microservices and production observability using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Working knowledge of cloud security and SecOps, including IAM, key management, logging, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and incident response.
- Experience applying FinOps concepts in AWS and Azure, including cost visibility, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, rightsizing, and reserved capacity or savings plans.
- Knowledge of software development processes involving Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Shell, Infrastructure as Code, and Configuration as Code.
- Familiarity with Jira, pip, npm, Gradle, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, artifact repositories, GitOps tooling, Helm, and Kustomize.
- Experience with cloud identity, secrets, configuration, container platforms, monitoring, logging, policy as code, compliance automation, and observability tools.
- Strong verbal communication, documentation, problem-solving, teamwork, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS or Azure certifications, application development experience, SRE experience, application security knowledge, cloud security posture management, threat detection, regulated-environment audits, FinOps certification or equivalent experience, and financial industry experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Letterkenny with 2–3 days in the office.
- Health insurance through Laya and BUPA for eligible employees.
- 23 days of annual leave at full pay.
- Pension scheme with employee contributions up to 8% and employer matching up to 8%, subject to scheme terms.
- Annual bonus programme and Shop LK Vouchers or CleverCards, subject to eligibility.
- Employer-paid life assurance providing beneficiaries with a lump sum of four times the employee’s salary.
- Education Assistance Programme reimbursing eligible further education.
- Employment is contingent on satisfactory references, and background checks are conducted for candidates offered a position.
Tech Stack
AnsibleArgo CDAWSAzureDatadogDockerGitGitHub ActionsGradleGrafanaGroovyHelmJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesMavennpmPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkSQLTerraform
