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Lead DevOps Engineer
About the Engineering Function
The engineering and delivery teams are responsible for designing, building, testing, and deploying technology that drives large-scale enterprise digital transformation. With teams across Ireland and the UK, they focus on cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, cybersecurity, and modern engineering practices — ensuring secure, scalable, high-performance solutions. They embrace modern methodologies like Scaled Agile, delivering core systems and innovative customer-facing applications.
Role Overview
This senior engineering role involves leading DevOps initiatives, collaborating with development teams to modernise software delivery, building automation, implementing infrastructure-as-code, and supporting efficient deployment pipelines within a regulated environment. The ideal candidate is strategic, technically proficient, and capable of stakeholder communication and hands-on coding.
Key Responsibilities
* Collaborate with engineering teams to understand software delivery lifecycles and requirements.
* Guide teams on DevOps tools, environments, and best practices aligned with the central DevOps Centre of Excellence (DCoE).
* Contribute to DCoE initiatives, including documentation, tooling, and platform improvements.
* Promote automation, clean pipelines, and continuous process improvement.
* Balance technical implementation with high-level stakeholder communication.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.
Core Skills & Experience
* Experience releasing applications into production or supporting production workloads.
* Ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
* Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in software delivery.
* Proficiency with tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.
* Strong scripting skills (Python, Perl, Ruby) and software development experience (Java, C#, Golang).
* Familiarity with APIs and distributed systems.
* Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo.
* Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
* Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
Nice-to-Have Skills
* Experience managing virtualised environments (e.g., VMWare).
* Knowledge of SSL, cryptography, and certificate management automation.
* Familiarity with advanced configuration management tools like Ansible Tower, Chef Server.
* Experience with cloud automation tools such as CloudFormation or ARM templates.
* Operational experience with container orchestration and workload management.
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