Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer
Location: Ireland (Galway hybrid preferred; or remote within Ireland considered)
Overview
A growing technology company is seeking a Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer to take hands-on ownership of its platform infrastructure and deployment tooling. This is a senior individual contributor role with technical leadership responsibility, working closely with senior technical leadership on platform decisions.
The focus of the role is building, operating, and improving production systems – with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and operational simplicity.
Responsibilities
Own and operate Kubernetes-based environments across development, demo, and customer deployments
Improve reliability, performance, and upgradeability of existing infrastructure
Design and maintain deployment patterns suitable for bare‑metal and air‑gapped environments
Enhance CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and environment consistency
Implement and maintain observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)
Debug production issues across application and infrastructure layers
Contribute to platform architecture decisions and operational standards
Document deployment patterns and operational practices
Requirements – Essential
Strong, hands‑on experience running Kubernetes in production
Experience supporting and upgrading long‑lived systems
Proven ability to improve reliability and performance of distributed systems
Comfortable working with infrastructure‑as‑code and deployment tooling (e.g. Helm, CI/CD)
Pragmatic, curious approach to problem‑solving
Requirements – Desirable
Experience with bare‑metal or air‑gapped Kubernetes deployments
Observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Experience with search, analytics, or workflow platforms
Exposure to GPU or ML‑adjacent infrastructure
Experience in non‑hyperscaler environments
Working Style
Majority hands‑on engineering (~75%)
Low‑bureaucracy environment with close collaboration across engineering
Emphasis on operational stability, supportability, and predictable upgrades
Why Apply
This role offers real ownership and impact, with the opportunity to shape and improve a production platform while remaining hands‑on. Ideal for engineers who enjoy building reliable systems that scale and last.
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Skills
DevOps
Kubernetes
AI
Benefits
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