Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Platform & Kubernetes

GemPool Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

GemPool Recruitment is partnering with a leading technology-driven organisation to hire an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering team across Dublin, Belfast, or Malta.

The role focuses on cloud-native platform engineering, automating deployments, and ensuring security and compliance within a highly regulated environment. You will work closely with engineering teams to drive cloud modernisation and scalability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in a senior DevOps or Platform Engineering role.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, AWS EKS.
• Experience with AWS ECS environments.
• Broad knowledge of AWS compute, databases, and security.
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Observability and monitoring with Datadog.
• Scripting with Python and/or Bash.
• In-depth container security practices.
• Experience in regulated or security-focused environments.
• Excellent communication and prioritisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes (EKS) platforms on AWS
• Support and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Harness.io
• Implement and manage observability tooling across the platform using Datadog
• Enhance and support AWS cloud infrastructure environments
• Review, optimise, and document deployment and operational processes
• Ensure change management processes align with security and compliance standards
• Collaborate with development teams to enable self-service platform capabilities
• Support incident response and platform reliability initiatives
• Analyse and optimise cloud infrastructure costs

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Bash

Container security

Regulated environments

Observability

Strong communication

Tools

AWS ECS

Terraform

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Job description

GemPool Recruitment is partnering with a leading technology-driven organisation to hire an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering team across Dublin, Belfast, or Malta.

The role focuses on cloud-native platform engineering, automating deployments, and ensuring security and compliance within a highly regulated environment. You will work closely with engineering teams to drive cloud modernisation and scalability.