DevOps Engineer

ID-Pal; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ID-Pal is seeking a DevOps engineer in Ireland to empower development teams to deliver software safely and reliably. The role focuses on building and operating infrastructure with a shared responsibility model across the platform.

You will work with AWS across multiple accounts, manage CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and secure practices in ISO-27001 environments, while mentoring others and improving operational reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in the relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Takes ownership and is comfortable working independently.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve infrastructure, automation, deployment processes, AI-assisted engineering and operational practices.
• Works collaboratively with Developers, QA, Product, and Support Teams to solve operational challenges.
• Shares knowledge through documentation, runbooks, and mentoring where appropriate.
• Takes a pragmatic approach to solving problems, balancing technical quality with business needs.
• Is curious, continuously learns, and isn’t afraid to challenge existing processes when there is a better way.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Automation

Documentation

Security

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in relevant field

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket Pipelines

Serverless Framework

CloudFormation

ECS/Fargate

OpenSearch

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

IAM

OIDC

VPC

Route53

WAF

Datadog

CloudWatch

SQS

EventBridge

Lambda

Job description

We see DevOps as an enabling function. Beyond building and operating infrastructure, the role is about empowering development teams to deliver software safely, reliably, and efficiently. Our team operates on a shared responsibility model, where everyone contributes across the platform rather than owning isolated systems. We value engineers who take ownership of their work, collaborate openly, share knowledge, and support one another to achieve the best outcomes for the business.

Core responsibilities

• Takesownership and is comfortable working independently.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve infrastructure, automation, deployment processes, AI-assisted engineering and operational practices.
• Works collaboratively with Developers, QA, Product, and Support Teams to solveoperational challenges.
• Shares knowledge through documentation, runbooks, and mentoringwhereappropriate.
• Takes a pragmatic approach to solving problems, balancing technical quality withbusiness needs.
• Is curious, continuouslylearns, andisn’tafraid to challenge existing processeswhenthereis a better way.

Key requirements

• Experience operating AWS production environments across multiple accounts (Dev, QA, Staging, Production).
• Hands-on Terraform experience building and managing AWS infrastructure in mixed IaC/manual environments.
• Experience working in an ISO-27001 environment or similar secure environment is required
• Good understanding of AWS IAM, Identity Center (SSO), least privilege, IAM roles, and OIDC-based CI/CD authentication.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (preferably Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipelines).
• Experience runningcontainerisedworkloads on Amazon ECS/Fargate.
• Good understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, routing, load balancers, Route53,and privatenetworking.
• Experience building and supporting event-driven architectures using SQS,EventBridge, and Lambda.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems using CloudWatch, Datadog, logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Experience operating AWS platform services including RDS, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch,ElastiCache/Memcached, and ECR.
• Experience implementing secure platform practices, including WAF, vulnerability scanning, and secure deployment processes.
• Comfortable supporting both modern AWS-native services and legacy EC2-based platforms.
• Willingness to automate operations outside of the core platform
• Good documentation and operational discipline.

Qualifications

• Minimum3 years of hands-on DevOps experience, with a proventrack record.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in the relevant field

Nice to haves

• Familiarity with Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and modern frontend deployment patterns.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems spanning legacy applications, microservices, queues, and external integrations.
• Experience working in regulated SaaS environments with change control, auditability, security, and operational governance.
• ExperienceoptimisingAWS infrastructure for cost, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Experience with Serverless Framework and CloudFormation for serverless applications.