Senior DevOps & Platform Engineering Lead

Citco; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Citco is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive the technical strategy and architecture for automation platforms, infrastructure automation, and self-service capabilities. The role blends hands-on ownership with team leadership, mentoring engineers and aligning platform capabilities with business needs.

The successful candidate will design, implement, and evolve automation solutions, IaC with Terraform, and containerization initiatives, while collaborating across leadership, development, and IT

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on cloud, DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Experience leading or mentoring teams.
• Strong Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform expertise.
• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Experience with Jenkins CI/CD tooling and pipelines.
• Proficient in Python or Bash scripting.

Responsibilities

• Own technical strategy and architecture for automation and self-service platforms.
• Lead design and continuous improvement of self-service capabilities.
• Design and manage enterprise automation platforms and workflows.
• Establish IaC practices with Terraform for cloud and on-prem.
• Own containerization strategy and Kubernetes migrations.
• Design GitOps deployment models across teams.
• Architect AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC).
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks and APIs.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps engineering

Automation platforms

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Python Bash scripting

Linux/Unix

Monitoring tools

Problem solving

Communication

Mentoring

Cross-timezone

Education

Bachelor's degree

CKA

Terraform Associate

Tools

Rundeck

Jenkins

ArgoCD/Flux

Terraform

Job description

Citco is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive the technical strategy and architecture for automation platforms, infrastructure automation, and self-service capabilities. The role blends hands-on ownership with team leadership, mentoring engineers and aligning platform capabilities with business needs.

The successful candidate will design, implement, and evolve automation solutions, IaC with Terraform, and containerization initiatives, while collaborating across leadership, development, and IT