Staff DevOps Engineer

Location: Dublin City (Hybrid - 1-2 days/week in office)
Employment Type: Full-time
Level: Senior individual contributor with a clear path to leadership

About Us

We're a fast-moving, product-led team building cloud-native infrastructure at scale. Our platform runs on AWS and supports growing demand across our customer base. As we scale, we're looking to strengthen our DevOps capabilities - and this is where you come in.

We're looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who thrives and enjoys solving complex technical problems, and is ready to step into a leadership role. You'll work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to evolve our infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and tooling - while helping shape our DevOps culture.

What You'll Be Doing

As a key member of the engineering team, you'll be responsible for:

• Designing and evolving our AWS-based cloud platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security

• Managing and operating Kubernetes clusters (primarily EKS), including provisioning, configuration, and monitoring

• Writing clean, maintainable Python code for internal tooling, automation scripts, and infrastructure logic

• Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across multiple environments

• Building robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows in collaboration with our development teams

• Driving observability and reliability across systems through logging, metrics, and alerting tooling

• Contributing to technical design, architecture discussions, and DevOps roadmap planning

• Acting as a technical mentor and future leader within the team

What We're Looking For

We value expertise, ownership, and initiative. You should bring:

• Strong experience with AWS - including services like EC2, VPC, RDS, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, etc.

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, including experience deploying and managing clusters in production (EKS preferred)

• Proficient Python skills - used for scripting, tooling, or infrastructure automation

• Solid Terraform experience, with a track record of delivering infrastructure-as-code across environments

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)

• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or similar)

• A collaborative mindset and ability to communicate clearly with engineers, product managers, and leadership

• A growth mindset and genuine interest in developing into a formal leadership position over time

What We Offer

• Competitive salary

• Equity: Be part of our growth and success

• Flexible hybrid model: 1-2 days/week in our Dublin City office

• Career growth: A clear path into engineering leadership as the team and company grow

• A strong culture of collaboration, autonomy, and learning

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