Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Nicoll Curtin; Connacht; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicoll Curtin is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to join its Enterprise Cybersecurity function. The role focuses on managing a large-scale enterprise secrets management platform, supporting thousands of applications globally, and driving security, automation and production platform resilience.

You will own authentication and access processes, build automation pipelines, and work closely with security and engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions in AWS and containerised

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience administering and operating enterprise secrets management or vault technologies.
• HashiCorp Vault experience strongly preferred, other vaults considered.
• Strong AWS experience is essential.
• Solid Linux/Unix systems administration experience.
• Scripting and automation skills in Python and Ansible.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Terraform and Artifactory.
• Understanding of networking, firewalls and load balancing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to contribute to technical design and architecture decisions.
• Strong communication skills with technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own, administer and support enterprise secrets management platforms within production environments.
• Manage platform upgrades, monitoring, performance, capacity and DR readiness.
• Design and implement improvements to access management and security capabilities.
• Develop automation and CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment and operations.
• Support cloud infrastructure and application integrations, particularly AWS.
• Build and maintain automated workflows using Python, Ansible and other infra tools.
• Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams across a global environment.
• Contribute to design, architecture decisions and Agile planning.

Skills

AWS

HashiCorp Vault

Python

Ansible

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Artifactory

Linux

Networking

Security

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Terraform

Artifactory

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

I'm working with a leading global financial services organisation looking to hire a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to join its Enterprise Cybersecurity function. You'll be responsible for managing and developing a large-scale enterprise secrets management platform, supporting thousands of applications across a global business. This is a hands-on engineering role combining security, cloud infrastructure, automation and production platform management.

You'll play a key role in improving platform reliability, security, performance and automation while helping develop new access management capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, administer and support enterprise secrets management platforms within critical production environments.
• Manage platform upgrades, monitoring, performance, capacity and disaster recovery readiness.
• Design and implement improvements to access management and security capabilities.
• Develop automation and CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment and operational efficiency.
• Support cloud infrastructure and application integrations, particularly within AWS.
• Build and maintain automated workflows using Python, Ansible and other infrastructure automation tools.
• Work closely with engineering and cybersecurity teams across a global environment.
• Contribute to technical design, architecture, Agile planning and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years' experience administering and operating enterprise secrets management or vault technologies.
• HashiCorp Vault experience is strongly preferred, but candidates with experience in alternative enterprise vault or secrets management platforms will also be considered.
• Strong AWS experience is essential.
• Solid Linux/Unix systems administration experience.
• Strong scripting and automation skills, particularly Python and Ansible.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Terraform and Artifactory.
• Understanding of networking, firewalls and load balancing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to contribute to technical design and architecture decisions.
• Strong communication skills and experience working with technical stakeholders.

The Environment

You'll join an established global cybersecurity engineering team responsible for delivering and maintaining critical access management services across a large enterprise environment.

The team operates using a DevOps and Agile approach, combining systems engineering, software engineering and production support.

The key requirement is strong AWS experience alongside hands-on enterprise secrets management experience. HashiCorp Vault is preferred, but equivalent technologies will be considered.