Lead, Developer Experience & Engineering Operations

Alldus; Dublin; On-site; EUR 112,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Strong pension scheme

Job summary

Alldus is seeking a Developer Experience and Engineering Operations Lead in Dublin, Ireland. You will own the roadmap to streamline how engineers build, test, release, and operate software, driving friction-free, secure, high-quality delivery across global teams.

You will guide adoption of AI-assisted development, establish performance standards, and collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Cloud and Security teams to improve end-to-end delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Proven track record improving developer productivity across teams or large organisations.
• Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices, cloud-native development, CI/CD, APIs, observability and automation.
• Experience defining engineering standards, golden paths or reusable playbooks.
• Familiarity with GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD platforms, IaC, containers, developer portals and AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the Developer Experience and Engineering Operations roadmap to improve how engineers build, test, release and operate software.
• Identify and address friction points across the software development life-cycle using data, feedback and engineering insight.
• Design and implement engineering standards, golden paths, reusable templates and delivery playbooks.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development, including coding assistants and workflow automation.
• Define guardrails for AI usage, including prompt patterns and security boundaries.
• Promote adoption of internal AI platform capabilities for governed reuse of AI-enabled solutions.
• Improve engineering operations across onboarding, documentation, knowledge sharing and cadences.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability, environment management, release processes and delivery transparency.
• Partner with Architecture, Platform, Cloud, Security and Product Engineering teams to improve end-to-end delivery.

Skills

Software engineering

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

Stakeholder management

Distributed teams

AI tools

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

CI/CD platforms

IaC

Containers

Developer portals

AI tools

Job description

Alldus is seeking a Developer Experience and Engineering Operations Lead in Dublin, Ireland. You will own the roadmap to streamline how engineers build, test, release, and operate software, driving friction-free, secure, high-quality delivery across global teams.

You will guide adoption of AI-assisted development, establish performance standards, and collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Cloud and Security teams to improve end-to-end delivery.