Lead Dev Ops Engineer: PGIM Ireland

Location

Letterkenny (Hybrid 2-3 days In Office)

Responsibilities

Our Technology Solutions Group is a dynamic, fast‑paced environment under new senior leadership. You will build scalable applications to support Portfolio Management, Compliance, Finance, Data Governance, Operational Risk, and Human Resources teams. You will focus on CI/CD, platform engineering, and operational excellence across on‑prem, AWS, and Azure, working closely with development teams to understand design challenges, propose technical solutions, and assist with implementation.

Key Tasks

• Standardize CI/CD on GitHub Actions by building reusable workflows/composite actions, defining runner strategy, enforcing environment protections/approvals, and required quality gates; automate build, test, security checks, and progressive delivery (blue/green, canary) to enable developer self‑service.
• Develop automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, source code management and new ways to operate and collaborate; implement IAC using CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Use Python, Shell/PowerShell, Groovy/JavaScript as needed for pipeline automation.
• Implement GitOps‑based deployment patterns and environment promotion workflows; establish guardrails for configuration, secrets, and change management across environments.
• Partner on FinOps practices: cost allocation/tagging standards, budget alerts, showback/chargeback reporting, rightsizing and scheduling, and optimization of compute/storage/network spend.
• Drive DevSecOps and Security Operations alignment collaborating with security teams on detection and response, platform hardening and access controls, audit‑ready logging and monitoring.
• Define and operationalize SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, on‑call readiness, runbooks, automated remediation, and service health dashboards.
• Collaborate with engineering and leadership on agile ways of working and inclusive attitudes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience deploying, managing and monitoring services in AWS/Azure.
• Hands‑on experience with source control (Git, GitHub) and feature‑branching strategies.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms with GitHub Actions as the primary automation layer.
• Familiarity integrating or migrating from legacy tooling (e.g., Jenkins).
• Understanding of networking, DNS, routing, messaging, and microservices.
• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces).
• Knowledge of cloud security and SecOps processes.
• Experience applying FinOps concepts in AWS/Azure.
• Ability to speak to SDLC best practices and industry trends.
• Familiarity with software engineering domains: Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Shell, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, Configuration‑as‑Code, Jira, pip, npm, Gradle, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Artifactory, Nexus, GitHub Packages, Jenkins, Argo CD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, AWS IAM/KMS/SSM, Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk/Dynatrace/Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OPA/Gatekeeper.
• Strong verbal communication and documentation skills.

Desired Skills

• AWS and Azure Cloud Certifications.
• Experience in application development (Python, Groovy, JavaScript).
• Experience in SRE principles, establishing SLO/SLA, performance measurement for ETL processes.
• Familiarity with application security domains and threat detection (AWS Security Hub/GuardDuty, Azure Defender/Sentinel).
• FinOps certification/training or equivalent experience.
• Financial industry experience.

Benefits

Health Insurance: PGIM Ireland partner with Laya and BUPA to provide health insurance schemes that cover eligible employees day to day medical and hospital expenses.

Annual Leave: 23 days at full pay.

Pension Scheme: Contributions up to 8% matched by PGIM Ireland.

Annual Bonus Programme & Shop LK Vouchers / CleverCards (subject to eligibility).

Life Assurance: fully paid by PGIM Ireland.

Education Assistance: Reimbursement for furthering education.

Equal Opportunity Employer

PGIM Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of applicants’ gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. All appointments will be made on merit. Background checks will be carried out on all candidates offered a position within PGIM Ireland.