7 Devops Architect jobs in Ireland

At Hertz, customer experience is at the forefront of everything we do. To help us build functional systems that improve customer experience we are now looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Architect. This role is responsible for managing the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for the Data Platform and Data Engineering team. They will work closely with the Enterprise Cloud Platform Engineering team and the Enterprise DevOps team, acting as a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration tasks. Daily activities include but not limited to solution architecture, infrastructure monitoring, incident response, and automated infrastructure and application deployments across all software development lifecycles.

What You'll Do:

• Build CI/CD Pipeline capabilities using Jenkins, Cloudbees, or ArgoCD,
• Build/maintain Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, or Ansible
• Provide level 3 technical support,
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors,
• Design and lead the implementation of devops automation processes including Infrastructure as Code, Software deployment,
• This is primarily an individual contributor role, but will likely also include management of a few less senior DevOps resources,
• Research problems and break them into deliverable parts,
• Ability to work in both a strategic long term mindset and a lean mindset with rapid delivery,
• Developing cloud first, global IaaS, CI/CD, and general automation processes utilizing the appropriate technology for the task at hand,
• We are looking for an aptitude and willingness to learn,
• Ability to show kindness and empathy when building software for end users,
• We admire engineering excellence and professionals that take pride in their work,
• We value engineers who are obsessed with the end user experience of their product.

What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years total of software engineering, system administration, and/or devops; Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science or other related field preferred
• Strategic and long term thinking skills
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Experience with git and git workflows
• Experience in CI/CD principles and Pipeline development (preferrably in Jenkins, ArgoCD or Cloudbees)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and tools including Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation preferred
• Experience deploying to cloud environments
• Experience in cloud resource optimization preferred
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration
• Strong communication skills
• Working knowledge of Lean and Agile methodologies

What You'll Get:

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements,
• Opportunity to work 20 days of the year abroad,
• 22 days holidays on hire rising to 27 days with service,
• Occupational Pension Scheme with up to 7% company matched contribution,
• Life Assurance Cover payable at 4 times base salary,
• Employee Friends & Family rental discount (40% discount for employee & partner; 30% discount for up to 8 additional family/friends),
• Tuition support plus access to compressive online learning platform,
• 10 days paid study leave & paid exam leave where exams fall during work hours,
• Income protection for long term illness,
• Professional membership fees paid in full annually where membership relates directly to role,
• Bike to Work & Travel Pass schemes,
• Profit sharing,
• Employee Assistance Programme,
• Onsite Occupational Health support,
• Christmas savings scheme,

Responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef. We need proven experience writing chef recipes/cookbooks as well as designing and implementing an overall Chef based release and deployment process.
• Use Jenkins to orchestrate application release & integration with tools Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline.
• Support deployments of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes needed with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible.
• Design and implement a Git based code management strategy that will support multiple environment deployments in parallel. Experience with automation for branch management, code promotions, and version management is a plus.
• Analyse ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems.
• Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
• Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
• Share knowledge and mentor junior resources
• Able to perform on-call duties on a rotational basis.
• Occasional off hours work required.

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We're also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1.

We've been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We're focused on our core values; using these we've seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Architect to lead the design and implementation of a new DevOps & Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) practice using Red Hat OpenShift AI for a key public sector client in Ireland. You will be responsible for creating and introducing the DevOps/MLOps practices that will transform our customers development practices from its current state to a modern, agile, and automated operational model. While extensive experience in DevOps is essential, we are open to candidates who have an interest in MLOps concepts and are eager to develop their skills in this area. Candidate ideally must be able to be on client location as the role required an on-site hybrid presence in Dublin 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Work with the customer to develop a scalable, secure and robust DevOps/MLOps framework to meet the business needs
• Establish and document best practices, standards and governance for the operation a Kubernetes based container platform in a large-scale environment.
• Act as the primary technical authority and evangelist for DevOps/MLOps in the customer organisation, championing a culture of automation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Assist the customer develop CI/CD pipelines for Software Development and Machine Learning, ensuring reproducibility, auditability, and traceability
• Supporting multi-stack development teams on each stage of the SDLC.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small team of DevOps/MLOps Engineers.
• Oversee the work of the engineering team, ensuring architectural integrity and quality standards are met.
• Assist in and developing DevOps/MLOps talent within the organisation
• Supporting automated deployments, release planning and troubleshooting in both non-prod and prod clusters.

• Coordinate Regular patch updates to Kubernetes, base images and node management in a controlled and automated process.

• Assist with Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes software defined network.

• Monitoring support and effective service uptime management in a 24 X 7 based environment.

Qualifications

Key Skills / Experience

• Demonstrable experience, supporting multi-cluster OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• OpenShift cluster administrative operations, such as scale nodes, upgrades, and granting permissions to users and groups.
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles and lifecycle, with willingness to learn and develop MLOps principles and skills.

• Configure OpenShift namespaces, network policies, resource quotas, and node selectors.

• Observability tooling, with strong experience working with Prometheus, Grafana ELK and related technologies.

• Kubernetes Operators life-cycle management, custom resource configuration and upgrades.
• Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes based SDN.
• Experience supporting underlying infrastructure components for TCP/IP networks eg DHCP and DNS services.
• GitOps management for deployments, configuration and state management for clusters.
• CI/CD automation and industry standards for DEVOPS principles.
• Work in agile based environments, with the ability to analyze and report incidents proactively, seeking continuous improvements.
• Kubernetes storage support with file, block, PVC, Object Storage. Knowledge of Ceph, Noobaa, ODF, OpenShift Container Storage or related.

Basic Qualifications:

• BSc in Computer Science or related field.

• 2+ years as a DevOps technical lead / Architect

• 5+ years experience with Linux systems administration and networking

• 5+ years experience supporting Java (or similar) based development teams.

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call-Out' platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Ekta Bahl - Talent Acquisition Capability Partner

Company Description
Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We're also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1.

We've been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We're focused on our core values; using these we've seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally

Job Description
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Architect to lead the design and implementation of a new DevOps & Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) practice using Red Hat OpenShift AI for a key public sector client in Ireland. You will be responsible for creating and introducing the DevOps/MLOps practices that will transform our customers development practices from its current state to a modern, agile, and automated operational model. While extensive experience in DevOps is essential, we are open to candidates who have an interest in MLOps concepts and are eager to develop their skills in this area. Candidate ideally must be able to be on client location as the role required an on-site hybrid presence in Dublin 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Work with the customer to develop a scalable, secure and robust DevOps/MLOps framework to meet the business needs
• Establish and document best practices, standards and governance for the operation a Kubernetes based container platform in a large-scale environment.
• Act as the primary technical authority and evangelist for DevOps/MLOps in the customer organisation, championing a culture of automation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Assist the customer develop CI/CD pipelines for Software Development and Machine Learning, ensuring reproducibility, auditability, and traceability
• Supporting multi-stack development teams on each stage of the SDLC.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small team of DevOps/MLOps Engineers.
• Oversee the work of the engineering team, ensuring architectural integrity and quality standards are met.
• Assist in and developing DevOps/MLOps talent within the organisation
• Supporting automated deployments, release planning and troubleshooting in both non-prod and prod clusters.
• Coordinate Regular patch updates to Kubernetes, base images and node management in a controlled and automated process.
• Assist with Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes software defined network.
• Monitoring support and effective service uptime management in a 24 X 7 based environment.

Qualifications
Key Skills / Experience

• Demonstrable experience, supporting multi-cluster OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• OpenShift cluster administrative operations, such as scale nodes, upgrades, and granting permissions to users and groups.
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles and lifecycle, with willingness to learn and develop MLOps principles and skills.
• Configure OpenShift namespaces, network policies, resource quotas, and node selectors.
• Observability tooling, with strong experience working with Prometheus, Grafana ELK and related technologies.
• Kubernetes Operators life-cycle management, custom resource configuration and upgrades.
• Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes based SDN.
• Experience supporting underlying infrastructure components for TCP/IP networks eg DHCP and DNS services.
• GitOps management for deployments, configuration and state management for clusters.
• CI/CD automation and industry standards for DEVOPS principles.
• Work in agile based environments, with the ability to analyze and report incidents proactively, seeking continuous improvements.
• Kubernetes storage support with file, block, PVC, Object Storage. Knowledge of Ceph, Noobaa, ODF, OpenShift Container Storage or related.

Basic Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years as a DevOps technical lead / Architect
• 5+ years experience with Linux systems administration and networking
• 5+ years experience supporting Java (or similar) based development teams.

Additional Information
Why Version 1?
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call-Out' platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Ekta Bahl - Talent Acquisition Capability Partner