Senior DevOps Engineer | PGIM Ireland
Prudential Financial25 days ago
Letterkenny, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate scalable 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, and progressive delivery using blue/green and canary deployment patterns.
- Develop automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, source code management, and operational collaboration practices.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Implement GitOps deployment and environment-promotion workflows with configuration, secrets, and change-management guardrails.
- Partner with engineering and leadership on FinOps, including cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, showback/chargeback, rightsizing, scheduling, and cloud-spend optimization.
- Partner with security teams on detection and response, platform hardening, access controls, audit-ready logging, and monitoring.
- Define and operationalize SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call readiness, runbooks, automated remediation, and service-health dashboards.
- Work with development teams to understand system challenges, propose technical solutions, and assist with implementation.
- Document user guides, defects, feature requests, and architecture designs.
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 integrating or migrating from Jenkins.
- Understanding of networking, DNS, routing, and messaging between services.
- Experience with microservices and production observability across 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, reserved capacity, and savings plans.
- Knowledge of software development processes and technologies including Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Shell, Infrastructure as Code, and Configuration as Code.
- Experience with Jira, pip, npm, Gradle, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with container platforms including Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR, Azure AKS, and Azure ACR.
- Experience with Argo CD or Flux and Helm or Kustomize-based configuration management.
- Knowledge of AWS IAM, KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, and App Configuration.
- Experience with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Knowledge of policy-as-code, OPA/Gatekeeper, Terraform policy frameworks, secrets management, workflow-as-code, reusable actions, runner strategies, environment protections, OIDC cloud authentication, artifacts, and caching.
- Strong verbal communication, documentation, problem-solving, teamwork, and ability to work with development communities and business leaders.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS or Azure certifications, application development experience with Python, Groovy, or JavaScript, SRE experience for web applications and data analytics or ETL processes, application security knowledge including SAST, DAST, SCA, and xSPM, cloud security posture management and threat detection experience, FinOps certification or equivalent experience, measurable cloud-cost optimization results, 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%, plus voluntary contributions.
- Annual bonus programme and Shop LK Vouchers or CleverCards, subject to eligibility.
- Life assurance fully paid by PGIM Ireland, with coverage equal to four times salary from the start date.
- Education Assistance Programme that reimburses eligible further education.
- Employment is contingent on satisfactory references, and background checks are conducted for candidates receiving offers.
Tech Stack
AnsibleArgo CDAWSAzureDatadogDockerGitGitHub ActionsGradleGrafanaGroovyHelmJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesMavennpmPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkSQLTerraform
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About Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) was founded on the belief that financial security should be within reach for everyone, and for over 150 years, we have helped our customers reach their potential and tackle life's challenges for now and future generations to come. Today, we are one of the world’s largest financial services institutions, offering individual and institutional clients a wide array of financial products and services. With operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America, we are known for delivering on our promises to our customers, and are recognized as a trusted brand and one of the world’s most admired companies. We also have one of the most recognized and trusted brand symbols: The Rock®, an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation. We measure our long-term success on our ability to deliver value for shareholders, meet customer needs, and attract and develop the best talent in our industry. We offer an inclusive work environment where employees can develop to their full potential, and give back to the communities where we live and work. (Pru.us/disclaimer)