Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD Lead

Fruition Group Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Group Ireland is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement and operate scalable cloud infrastructure in AWS, while building robust CI/CD pipelines and leveraging infrastructure as code with Terraform and Pulumi.

You will collaborate with software teams using TypeScript/Node.js, improve observability, security and costs, and mentor engineers across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in DevOps Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or a related technical role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying and managing production environments within AWS.
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Pulumi.
• Extensive knowledge of containerisation technologies, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated expertise in building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix environments, networking, cloud security and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash or similar languages.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across technical teams.
• Experience managing container orchestration environments using AWS ECS or Amazon EKS.
• Familiarity with GitOps methodologies and automated infrastructure deployment practices.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana or AWS CloudWatch.
• Experience working with SQL databases and RESTful API-based applications.
• Understanding of modern software development practices, including automated testing, version control and code reviews.
• Exposure to cloud-native architecture, microservices and distributed applications.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability management, secrets management and automated security testing.
• Previous experience mentoring engineers or contributing to technical architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable, secure and highly available cloud infrastructure, primarily using AWS.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to streamline software deployment, testing and release management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and management through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies, including Terraform and Pulumi.
• Manage containerised applications and orchestration environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to support applications developed using TypeScript, Node.js and related technologies.
• Implement effective monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to improve system performance, availability and reliability.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen cloud security, optimise infrastructure costs and improve operational resilience.
• Provide technical leadership, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Linux/Unix

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Certifications: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

ECS/EKS

Job description

Fruition Group Ireland is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement and operate scalable cloud infrastructure in AWS, while building robust CI/CD pipelines and leveraging infrastructure as code with Terraform and Pulumi.

You will collaborate with software teams using TypeScript/Node.js, improve observability, security and costs, and mentor engineers across distributed systems.