DevOps Lead Engineer — MES & Pharma Platform Deployments

Cognizant; Limerick; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a DevOps Lead Engineer to join a greenfield MES rollout at a biotech manufacturing site in Limerick, Ireland. The role requires driving the DevOps toolchain, modern CI/CD practices, and infrastructure-as-code across development, testing, and production environments.

The ideal candidate will lead deployments for MES platforms, preferably with Emerson Syncade, and ensure release governance, change control, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Lead or Senior DevOps on complex enterprise programmes.
• Hands-on SDLC and modern DevOps practices.
• CI/CD, IaC, automation, and scripting skills.
• Experience in release management and configuration management.
• Experience with MES platforms, ideally Emerson Syncade.
• Knowledge of GxP, CSV, and GAMP 5 is a plus.
• Containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong problem solving and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, implement, and refine CI/CD pipelines for deployments across dev, test, and production.
• Own the DevOps toolchain and environment lifecycle: source control, IaC, configuration management, release management, monitoring, and observability.
• Provision and manage secure, resilient infrastructure underpinning MES platforms with high availability.
• Manage MES platforms (Emerson Syncade) — deployments, configuration, patching, upgrades, and operations.
• Set development standards, branching strategy, code review, release governance, and change control for regulated manufacturing.
• Collaborate with software engineering, QA, MES vendors, system integrators, and stakeholders to deliver automated deployments and IaC.
• Build automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD with QA for shift-left testing.
• Stand up monitoring, logging, and alerting for platform health and performance.
• Ensure CSV, audit readiness, disaster recovery, and business continuity with documentation.
• Drive ongoing improvement across the delivery lifecycle and clear deployment bottlenecks.
• Serve as technical authority for infrastructure and deployment issues.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Scripting

DevOps leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Emerson Syncade

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a DevOps Lead Engineer to join a greenfield MES rollout at a biotech manufacturing site in Limerick, Ireland. The role requires driving the DevOps toolchain, modern CI/CD practices, and infrastructure-as-code across development, testing, and production environments.

The ideal candidate will lead deployments for MES platforms, preferably with Emerson Syncade, and ensure release governance, change control, and regulatory compliance.