DevOps Engineer — Cloud, CI/CD & Automation

Zinkworks; Athlone; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Zinkworks is seeking a seasoned Platform/DevOps engineer to advance CI/CD pipelines, automate releases on OpenShift, and maintain network service tooling. You will manage Kubernetes/OpenShift workloads, implement GitOps practices, and ensure code quality with SonarQube and Snyk in a regulated enterprise environment.

Based in Ireland, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver automated, scalable infrastructure, while continuously improving deployment processes and security

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform, DevOps, release, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline-as-code, and Git-based workflows.
• Solid Linux administration skills and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Experience running containerised workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift with GitOps tooling like ArgoCD.
• Familiarity with code quality and security tools (SonarQube, Snyk) and service mesh (Istio) and Identity/SSO (Keycloak).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and shared pipeline templates across groups.
• Own the compliance layer of the delivery process - integrate SonarQube and Snyk checks and enforce code standards.
• Manage application releases to OpenShift via GitOps/ArgoCD, including pre-prod and prod within change windows.
• Administer and troubleshoot OpenShift clusters - node issues, cluster failures, platform incidents.
• Deliver package deployments to Cisco NSO and Itential IAP, including network orchestration workflows and server access.
• Maintain platform infrastructure through Ansible automation and self-managed GitLab runners; update documentation and runbooks.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Pipeline as code

Git-based workflows

Linux administration

Bash

Python

Ansible

ArgoCD

Istio

Keycloak

Tools

OpenShift

Cisco NSO

Itential IAP

SonarQube

Snyk

Job description

Zinkworks is seeking a seasoned Platform/DevOps engineer to advance CI/CD pipelines, automate releases on OpenShift, and maintain network service tooling. You will manage Kubernetes/OpenShift workloads, implement GitOps practices, and ensure code quality with SonarQube and Snyk in a regulated enterprise environment.

Based in Ireland, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver automated, scalable infrastructure, while continuously improving deployment processes and security