IP (Information Providers Ltd) is an Information Technology Managed Services Outsourcing and IT Contract Staff Resource Augmentation consultancy established in 1998. We serve corporate clients primarily in Greater Dublin and Midlands areas, offering Managed Services Outsourcing and IT Staff Augmentation.
Role Overview
We currently have an excellent opportunity for Senior DevOps Engineers in a leading‑edge, high‑tech, fast‑paced environment. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and evolving secure, scalable, and efficient infrastructure and pipelines, with strong emphasis on automation, observability, and incident response.
Job Duties
Implement infrastructure as code solutions to manage VM infrastructure.
Engage and improve the lifecycle of services – from design to deployment, operation, and refinement.
Scale systems sustainably through automation and push changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Release deployments that pass quality and security gateways.
Debug, optimise code, and automate routine tasks.
Support services before they go live through system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
Maintain services once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post‑mortems.
Take a holistic approach to problem solving during production events across the technology stack, improving mean time to recovery.
Analyse and develop observability enhancements to product monitoring and alerts.
Onboard tech assets to real‑time monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Prometheus.
Onboard tech assets to synthetic data transactions and health checks for auto‑failover/failback.
Enhance release deployment automation, rolling deployment, and auto‑validations.
Provide new capabilities to support CI/CD enhancements.
Share knowledge and mentor junior resources.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems.
Experience in monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, etc.
Experience in monitoring as code (e.g., SplunkSync), rolling deployment, and release automation (e.g., XLR).
Knowledge of building CI/CD pipelines and practical experience with Jenkins.
Good understanding of Chef, preferably Chef Habitat, and Ruby/Bash scripting.
Awareness of security implementations, certificate management lifecycle, mutual TLS, SSL handshake, SSH keys, and encryption.
Understanding of API authentication mechanisms such as OAuth and mTLS.
Basic understanding of network protocols, network security, and WAF.
Problem‑solving and solution‑seeking mindset. Team player.
Beneficial Skills
Experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation, preferably Azure (AWS also helpful).
Programming experience in at least one of: Java, Ruby, Python, Bash.
Experience deploying and scaling distributed systems on virtual machines.
Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and other container orchestration tools for deploying and managing applications.
Employment Benefits
We reward performance and hard work with best‑in‑class compensation.
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