The Client:
Our client, a leading banks in Ireland, is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior DevOps & Automation Engineerย to work in Dublin, Ireland.
What Youโll Love:
- This role is part of a long-term strategic project within the Bank, so this is an opportunity to work for the top bank in the country on a Permanent / Rolling Contract basis.
- The role offers a Competitive Day Rate and Hybrid working option is available.
What you are expected to have:
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Automation Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
- 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications or platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, and Python scripting.
- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Experience with Git, GitHub, or GitLab and branching workflows.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins pipeline administration and development.
- Strong Linux administration skills (Windows knowledge is an advantage).
- Demonstrated expertise in troubleshooting complex deployment and environment issues, with strong root cause analysis skills.
- Experience with release and deployment management practices.
- Experience with container platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Amazon ECS.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (Azure/GCP acceptable).
- Experience in enterprise-scale, regulated environments.
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
- Understanding of SSL/MTLS certificates and related technologies.
- Experience supporting critical production or pre-production environments.
- Proven ability to replace manual processes with automation.
- Ability to troubleshoot across application, middleware, network, and infrastructure layers.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within the financial services or other regulated sectors.
- Knowledge of security and compliance automation.
- Experience implementing or working with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) metrics.
- Exposure to Agentic AI, AI-assisted automation, or Generative AI technologies is an advantage.
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What you will do:
Service Ownership
- Lead investigation of deployment failures and environment issues.
- Troubleshoot across application, middleware, operating system, network and infrastructure layers.
- Perform deep root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
- Analyse pipeline failures, logs, monitoring data and infrastructure events.
Support critical releases and major incidents. - Ensure recurring issues are resolved through engineering improvements rather than operational workarounds.
Automation & Engineering
- Design, build and maintain automation using Ansible, Python, Terraform and Jenkins.
- Systematically identify manual tasks and eliminate them.
Build reusable, self-service capability so teams can unblock themselves. - Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption across the pre-production and Proving estate.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with the existing SME to capture and automate manual processes.
- Share knowledge and promote automation best practices.
- Build trust through small, visible wins before large-scale change.
- Escalate constructively where adoption stalls; do not work around people.
Engineering Excellence
- Improve monitoring, logging and operational visibility.
- Standardise deployment processes across platforms.
- Contribute to platform modernisation (OpenShift, containers, cloud).
- Improve documentation, operational procedures and service standards.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the service.
You are good to apply if you are:
- Irish or EU or British Citizen, or holding a Stamp 4 or Stamp 1G permit.
- Residing in the specified job location currently
Why Should You Apply?
Aside from a highly competitive day rate/salary, this is a role that will provide a great balance of support and challenge for someone who wants to take the next step in their career.
Interested? Apply here:
If you feel youโve got the right skills and experience, we would absolutely love to hear from you!
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