DevOps Engineer
Summary
Design and maintain Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud platforms, automate CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Harness, and improve observability using Datadog for a secure, regulated tech environment.
Gempool is partnering with a leading international technology-driven organisation to hire an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering team across Dublin, Belfast, or Malta.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Platform/DevOps Engineer with strong Kubernetes and AWS experience to help drive cloud modernisation, platform engineering initiatives, and infrastructure scalability within a highly secure and regulated environment.
The Role
You will work closely with engineering and infrastructure teams to design, implement, and optimise cloud-native platforms while improving automation, observability, and deployment processes.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes (EKS) platforms on AWS
- Support and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Harness.io
- Implement and manage observability tooling across the platform using Datadog
- Enhance and support AWS cloud infrastructure environments
- Review, optimise, and document deployment and operational processes
- Ensure change management processes align with security and compliance standards
- Collaborate with development teams to enable self-service platform capabilities
- Support incident response and platform reliability initiatives
- Analyse and optimise cloud infrastructure costs
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years’ experience in a senior DevOps or Platform Engineering role
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, particularly AWS EKS
- Experience working with AWS ECS environments
- Strong knowledge of AWS services across compute, databases, and security
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Hands‑on experience with observability and monitoring tools, ideally Datadog
- Strong scripting skills using Python and/or Bash
- Good understanding of container security best practices
- Experience working within regulated or security-focused environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
Nice to Have
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling
- Exposure to service mesh technologies such as Istio
- Understanding of platform engineering concepts
- Linux or database administration experience
- Experience working within financial services environments