Principal DevOps Engineer - Platform Architecture

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Northern Ireland; On-site; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology firm is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of its DevOps platform. You will develop and enhance systems for automated software delivery and collaborate closely with engineering teams to remove bottlenecks in the process. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and hybrid infrastructures. This role is pivotal in transforming how software is built and deployed within the organization, striving for consistent practices across varied environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building and delivering software at scale.
• Ability to design the entire software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience simplifying or modernizing delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve DevOps architecture end-to-end.
• Define and enhance CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows.
• Drive infrastructure automation and platform reliability.

Skills

DevOps / platform engineering background

CI/CD pipelines design

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Configuration management (Ansible)

Hybrid environments experience

Scripting (Python, Java, Go)

Job description

A global payments technology firm is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of its DevOps platform. You will develop and enhance systems for automated software delivery and collaborate closely with engineering teams to remove bottlenecks in the process. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and hybrid infrastructures. This role is pivotal in transforming how software is built and deployed within the organization, striving for consistent practices across varied environments.