Staff Engineer, DevOps LearnUpon · Dublin · DevOps & Release Pay not stated 10mo ago

Devopsroles; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

LearnUpon is seeking a Staff Engineer, DevOps in Dublin on a hybrid basis. You will shape the DevOps architecture for our LMS, drive technical strategy, and elevate the skills of our engineering teams.

You will lead initiatives spanning architecture, automation, and reliability while collaborating with Product Engineering and leadership to align infrastructure with business goals. The role emphasizes building scalable cloud infrastructure, establishing robust CI/CD practices, and guiding a

Qualifications

• Proven cloud infra expertise with focus on AWS/GCP/Azure equivalents.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and Helm as core orchestration layer.
• Deep knowledge of IaC using Terraform or Ansible for modular reusable patterns.
• Extensive history designing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and internal tooling.
• Experience leading large-scale initiatives across multiple squads/services.
• Mentoring and elevating senior technical talent across teams.
• Familiarity using AI tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Strategy: Drive long-term DevOps roadmap and scalable infra architecture across services.
• Automation & CI/CD: Build and scale pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Operational Excellence: Set high standards for code quality, design, reliability, and scalability.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and uplift engineering talent across teams.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Align infra capabilities with product and business goals.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes & Helm

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Automation tooling

Technical leadership

AI tooling adoption

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Bash/Python/Go

Job description

Work Mode: Hybrid 1+ day per week in our Dublin office

Department: Engineering

About the Company

LearnUpon partners with over 1,600 organisations globally to unlock the potential of employees, customers & members through learning that’s easy, scalable and focused on results.

Read more about life at LearnUpon here.

About the Team

Our Engineering team builds and delivers our best-in-class, world-scale Learning Management System (LMS). We focus on architectural excellence, reliability, and technical innovation across multiple teams and services. Operating with high ownership and deep technical expertise, we champion engineering best practices, seamless automation, and a strong culture of collaborative mentorship to support LearnUpon's global product growth.

About the Opportunity

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.

In addition, you’ll be responsible for:

• Architecture & Strategy: Drive technical innovation, shape our long-term technical roadmap, and establish scalable DevOps architecture across multiple platform services
• Automation & CI/CD: Establish and scale robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, driving best practices across the engineering organization
• Operational Excellence: Champion absolute standards for code quality, system design, scalability, and cloud production reliability
• Mentorship & Leadership: Provide strategic technical guidance, acting as a prominent role model to uplevel the skills of our entire engineering and senior technical talent pool
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Engineering and cross-functional leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with business goals

Skills & Experience

Must-Haves

• Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, particularly within AWS environments, with an advanced understanding of production scalability, security, and reliability
• Strong production experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts as the foundational layer for container platform orchestration
• Deep proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform or Ansible, focusing on modular and reusable architecture patterns
• Extensive background designing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and engineering automated internal tooling using Bash, Python, or Go
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale technical initiatives that span across multiple engineering squads and services
• Track record of mentoring, coaching, and elevating senior-level technical talent
• Experience using AI tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiencies

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with GitOps deployment workflows using tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD
• Prior experience optimizing massive multi-tenant platform infrastructure within a high-growth B2B SaaS architecture

*If you don’t tick every box but believe this role is a mutually good fit, please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you.

Why choose LearnUpon?

From comprehensive rewards and generous time off to meaningful investment in your growth and development, LearnUpon gives you the support, trust, and opportunity to do the most impactful work of your career.

Learn more here.

Hiring Process

• Qualified applicants may be invited to an initial screening call with a member of our TA Team.
• Successful candidates will be invited to a series of practical interviews.
• Finally, candidates will have an interview with our CTO.
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

Note: At LearnUpon, we utilise AI to enhance the speed and quality of our screening and assessment practices, but our hiring decisions are always human.

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.