Staff Engineer, DevOps

LearnUpon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive private health insurance

Company pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Supportive work environment

Job summary

A leading LMS provider is seeking a Staff Engineer for DevOps in Dublin. This role involves spearheading DevOps practices, influencing technical strategies, and mentoring engineers. You will work within a collaborative environment, driving technical innovation and resolving complex challenges. The ideal candidate possesses robust experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and a deep familiarity with CI/CD tooling. Competitive salary and benefits offered, including health insurance and annual leave.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of exceptional DevOps/SRE experience with proven leadership.
• Strong experience with containerized environments and cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Drive DevOps best practices across infrastructure and pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance to the engineering organization.
• Champion engineering best practices and mentor engineers.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance

Communication skills

Tools

GitLab

Bash

Python

Go

Job description

LearnUpon is seeking an exceptional Staff Engineer, DevOps to join our Engineering team in Dublin. This is a flex role, working 1 day per week from LearnUpon's Dublin office.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more.

As a Staff Engineer, DevOps, you'll be a key technical leader and role model within LearnUpon. You'll shape the DevOps architecture of our best-in-class LMS, influence our technical strategy, and elevate the skills of our entire engineering organization. Your impact will extend beyond our product, contributing to our mission of building robust, lovable learning products that help customers achieve results.

What will I be doing?

• Drive DevOps best practices around CI/CD, automation, scalability and reliability across LearnUpon's infrastructure and pipelines.
• Drive technical innovation and strategic initiatives across multiple teams and services.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to uplevel the entire engineering organization.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering teams and cross‑functional partners to shape our long‑term technical roadmap and strategy.
• Identify and solve complex technical challenges that significantly impact LearnUpon's growth and success.
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, system design, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and coach engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Resolve conflicts and drive alignment between teams, building a cohesive engineering culture.

What skills do I need?

• 8+ years of exceptional DevOps/SRE experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership in large‑scale, distributed systems.
• Deep focus on containerized environments, with experience supporting local development, CI/CD workflows, and deployment across the cloud.
• Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, with a deep understanding of scalability, reliability, and security in production environments.
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts, as a foundation for modern infrastructure and platform orchestration.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), with a focus on building modular, reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), and developing automation tooling (Bash, Python, Go).
• Demonstrated success in leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams and services.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Track record of mentoring and elevating the skills of other engineers, including senior‑level talent.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a big plus

• Experience leading engineering initiatives across multiple locations.
• Contributions to open‑source projects or thought leadership in the software engineering community.
• Experience with cost management for cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD and FluxCD.

Why work with us?

• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
• Comprehensive private health insurance scheme and Company pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off.
• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events.
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go.

What is the Hiring Process?

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a screening call.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews.
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C‑Suite Team.
• The successful candidate will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.