The Client:

Our client, a leading banks in Ireland, is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Environment Automation Engineer to work in Dublin, Ireland.

What You’ll 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, Environment Automation, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications or platforms.
• Demonstrable deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis capability under pressure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, and Python scripting.
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Proficiency with Git, GitHub, or GitLab and branching workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins pipeline administration and development.
• Solid Linux administration skills (Windows knowledge is an advantage).
• Experience with release and deployment management practices.
• Experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes container platforms.
• Experience working with AWS cloud (Azure or GCP experience is also acceptable).
• Experience working in enterprise-scale, regulated environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Knowledge of SSL/MTLS certificates.
• Experience supporting environments across the full software delivery lifecycle, including test and production environments.
• Strong understanding of release management, deployment automation, and environment promotion strategies.
• Experience working within controlled production change processes.
• Proven track record of replacing manual processes with automation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, operating system, network, infrastructure, and deployment tooling layers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services or other regulated sectors.
• Knowledge of security and compliance automation is desirable.
• Experience implementing or working with DORA metrics.
• Exposure to Agentic AI, AI-assisted operational automation, intelligent workflow orchestration, AI-driven incident management, AI-enabled deployment validation, or Generative AI technologies is an advantage.

What you will do:

Environment Automation & Engineering

• Design, build and maintain automation for environment provisioning, configuration and operational support.
• Develop reusable automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python and Jenkins.
• Identify repetitive manual activities and replace them with reliable automated solutions.
• Build self-service capability to allow delivery teams to complete standard environment requests without manual EMS intervention.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption across the environment estate, from System Test through to Production.
• Improve automation standards, templates, scripts, pipelines and reusable engineering patterns.
• Ensure automation is documented, supportable and transferable across the team.

Environment Troubleshooting & Stability

• Lead investigation of environment issues, deployment failures and platform instability.
• Troubleshoot across application, middleware, operating system, network, infrastructure and deployment tooling layers.
• Analyse pipeline failures, logs, monitoring output and infrastructure events.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Support critical releases, urgent environment issues and major incidents impacting delivery.
• Ensure recurring issues are resolved through engineering improvements rather than repeated manual workarounds.

Deployment & Tooling Support

• Support Jenkins pipeline administration, troubleshooting and enhancement.
• Improve deployment reliability across all environments, from System Test through to Production.
• Standardise deployment support processes across platforms and applications.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve release readiness.
• Help introduce deployment controls, validation checks and automated guardrails.
• Support environment readiness activities for major releases and project milestones.

Continuous Improvement

• Partner with SMEs and support engineers to capture, simplify and automate manual processes.
• Improve monitoring, logging and operational visibility across environments.
• Contribute to platform modernisation initiatives, including OpenShift, containers and cloud adoption.
• Promote automation best practice and upskill colleagues where required.
• Build trust through small, visible improvements before scaling larger automation changes.
• Contribute to service standards, operational procedures and continuous improvement roadmaps.

Governance, Risk & Operational Control

• Ensure automation aligns with Bank standards, control requirements and audit expectations.
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks and evidence for automated processes.
• Support controlled change and release delivery across all environments in line with Bank governance and risk requirements.
• Help reduce operational risk by improving consistency, repeatability and traceability.
• Ensure environment changes are delivered in a controlled, transparent and supportable manner.

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 you’ve got the right skills and experience, we would absolutely love to hear from you!
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