DevOps Engineer - Luma

dotmatics; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dotmatics, a Siemens company, seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our global team. You will design and manage CI/CD pipelines for AWS-native and Kubernetes-based applications, embed security into the delivery lifecycle, and collaborate across product teams to advance cloud and container best practices.

This role supports a remote-friendly, high-integrity environment and offers significant impact on our science-driven platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience maintaining high-traffic applications and complex infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience translating AWS Well-Architected principles into action.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, cloud security, and containerization.
• Experience with AI-assisted tooling in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage CI/CD and deployment pipelines for AWS-native and Kubernetes-based apps.
• Provide guidance to product teams on deployment requirements.
• Collaborate on cloud and container best practices.
• Manage cloud IT infrastructure and automate deployments.
• Embed security into every delivery stage (DevSecOps) with automated scans.
• Establish guardrails for IAM, encryption, and secrets management.
• Harden Kubernetes clusters and cloud environments using policy-as-code.
• Support vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance efforts.
• Utilize AI-assisted tooling to accelerate pipeline development.

Skills

DevOps engineering

Cloud architectures

Security practices

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS (ECS, EKS, ALB, EC2, S3)

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

CI/CD tools

Octopus Deploy

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

TeamCity

CodePipeline

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK stack

App Insights

Job description

Our Why At Dotmatics

At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.

We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.

We have created the world's most comprehensive digital science platform - best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.

Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow's breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.

Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics

Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.

You'll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world's largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.

We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.

What do we need

Dotmatics is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team working on ground-breaking Scientific Software products such as Luma. In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge to help improve our processes, infrastructure and security by applying best practices with the latest technologies. You will be AI fluent and know how AI influences engineering and DevOps

In this role you will get to:

• Design and manage CI/CD and deployment pipelines for both AWS-native and Kubernetes-based applications
• Provide advice/assistance to the product teams, clarifying requirements for deployment
• Collaborate with product teams on cloud and container best practices
• Manage IT infrastructure in cloud computing environments
• Automation: Use CI tools to automate code changes, builds, testing, and analysis
• Monitoring: Monitor performance after release
• Develop and improve monitoring systems for automated alerts
• Strategy: Design and manage the DevOps infrastructure, pipelines, and processes
• SECURITY: Embed security into every stage of the delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps), including automated SAST, DAST, dependency, secrets, and container image scanning in CI/CD pipelines
• SECURITY: Implement and enforce least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, encryption in transit and at rest, and secrets management (e.g. AWS Secrets Manager, Vault, KMS)
• SECURITY: Harden Kubernetes clusters and cloud environments using policy-as-code, admission controls, runtime protection, and CIS/NIST benchmarks
• SECURITY: Support vulnerability management, incident response, audit readiness, and compliance efforts (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001)
• AI: Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate pipeline development, infrastructure code, troubleshooting, and incident analysis
• AI: Apply AI/ML-driven capabilities to monitoring, including anomaly detection, alert noise reduction, and automated root-cause analysis
• AI: Build and operate deployment pipelines and infrastructure for AI/ML and LLM-based workloads, including model serving, GPU-enabled clusters, and cost controls
• AI: Establish guardrails for responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data privacy, access controls, and review of AI-generated code and configuration

We are looking for people who have 8+ years of experience maintaining high-traffic applications and complex technical infrastructure. You will be someone with a proven background in supporting cloud environments, with hands-on experience translating AWS Well-Architected principles into action.

The key skills we are looking for:

• Kubernetes clusters/customer cloud environments
• AWS (ECS, EKS, ALB, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route53, etc.)
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• CI/CD tools (Octopus Deploy, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity, CodePipeline, etc.)
• APMs and logging (e.g. Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ELK, App Insights)
• Networking concepts in cloud environments
• Software development lifecycle processes/version control
• Security: DevSecOps practices, AWS security services (IAM, Gu