Senior DevOps Engineer

Ripple; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps to lead multi-region cloud platforms and streamline release pipelines in Dublin. You will develop, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure, build automation, and drive CI/CD improvements across teams.

The role requires 6+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering, strong AWS, Kubernetes mastery, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation). Collaboration and production readiness are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Extensive hands-on AWS and multi-region deployments experience.
• Strong Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration skills.
• IaC experience with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Production-grade CI/CD pipeline design and automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider platforms.
• Build automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce friction.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive production readiness.
• Automate lifecycle services with data-driven state convergence.
• Contribute to DevOps-first adoption and improvements.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Python/Bash

Tools

Docker

OCI

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

THE WORK:

Developer Operations (DevOps) at Ripple manages communication, collaboration, and integration between Development and Operations teams. They ensure infrastructures, tools, and processes are streamlined and effective for automated product delivery.

The Senior Software Engineer, DevOps will contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies and use a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. You will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple’s development and production infrastructure, improving our DevOps process including deployment, monitoring, instrumentation and overall infrastructure management.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
• Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
• Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and large-scale, multi-region distributed systems, preferably on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and experience managing container orchestration platforms and runtimes, including Docker and OCI.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering fundamentals, including automation, reliability, scalability, high availability, and operational excellence.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including automated environment provisioning, regression testing, and containerized build and deployment workflows.
• Experience managing artifact repositories and storage systems for build dependencies and pipeline artifacts.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and scripting languages such as Bash and Python.
• Experience operating, administering, and troubleshooting production infrastructure, with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a team-oriented mindset.

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

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