5 Devops Specialist jobs in Ireland

My Dublin based client is recruiting for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineer. This is a perm role working on a hybrid model. We are seeking a technically skilled and security-focused Senior Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure operations and provide support for customer on-premises this role, youll ensure high levels of availability, performance, and security across modern cloud infrastructures while contributing to scalable deployment processes and security best practices. Key Responsibilities Take ownership of cloud infrastructure performance, availability, and cost efficiency. Enhance and secure deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, and related tools. Troubleshoot and resolve customer-facing operational incidents. Strengthen security posture, support audits, and manage vulnerability remediation. Lead the design and evolution of automated deployment processes. Provide technical and deployment support for on-premises customer environments. Optimize AWS infrastructure for scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Ensure compliance tracking across multiple AWS accounts. Serve as an escalation point for operational issues. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to defining best practices. Experience 7+ years in cloud infrastructure operations or DevOps roles. Proven expertise with AWS services, infrastructure-as-code, and automation tools. Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins pipelines, Ansible, and scripting (Python/Shell). In-depth understanding of IAM, audit logging, encryption, and secure deployment practices. Desirable Skills Familiarity with Terraform, AWS Config, or AWS Security Hub. Experience with cost management and optimization tools. Background working within regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., SOC 2). Skills: DevOps Azure Cloud Infrastructure AWS Python Jenkins Development

Are you curious, passionate about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Azure Platform focused on the Cloud & AI platform for mid-market customers at Microsoft.
In this technical sales role, you'll help customers design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures that support their modernization goals. Using Cloud & AI's IaaS and PaaS services, you'll guide organizations through migration, optimization, and innovation-translating technical capabilities into real business outcomes.
You'll collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.
At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team-one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry's most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.
SME&C is more than a sales organization-it's a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you'll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.
If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
As a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer on the Azure Platform, you'll play a key role in helping mid-market customers modernize their infrastructure and unlock the full value of Microsoft's cloud. You'll work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support AI workloads and business-critical applications.
You bring deep expertise in migrating core workloads-including Windows, SQL Server, Linux, PostgreSQL, and Oracle-to Cloud & AI. Beyond migration, you lead customers through modernization using the 6R strategy, containerization best practices, and Cloud & AI-native services like AKS and Arc, while exploring how AI and intelligent agents can accelerate legacy transformation.
You also apply strong networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures that meet enterprise performance and compliance needs. You complement this with trusted partner solutions like NetApp, VMware, RedHat, and SAP to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable migration experience.
This opportunity will allow you to:
+ Accelerate your career growth by leading impactful engagements that help customers modernize their infrastructure and adopt secure, scalable cloud solutions.
+ Deepen your technical expertise through hands-on architecture design, migration planning, and implementation of hybrid and cloud-native environments.
+ Develop strategic influence by guiding customers through infrastructure modernization and shaping technical decisions that support AI and business-critical workloads.
+ Strengthen your collaboration skills by working closely with engineering teams, partners, and customer stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
To prepare for the role, you will be enrolled in the Elevate and Early-in-Profession (EiP) Program. Microsoft's Elevate and Early-in-Profession (EiP) programs exemplify the company's commitment to developing early-career talent through robust onboarding and mentorship. These programs are designed to accelerate new hires' productivity, integrate them into Microsoft's culture, and set them on a path for long-term growth within the company. Participants in Elevate/EiP benefit from a comprehensive onboarding experience that includes immersive training, structured job shadowing with seasoned colleagues, and continuous support from dedicated mentors. By investing heavily in the first six months of a new employee's tenure, Microsoft ensures its early-in-career hires build essential skills, confidence, and professional networks that will enable them to excel. 
As you join the team, You will have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise with access to a wide range of Microsoft learning resources-including support for earning industry-recognized certifications across Cloud & AI infrastructure, security, and AI.
With a solid understanding of Cloud & AI security services and compliance frameworks you will help customers meet regulatory requirements and build Cloud environments that are ready for the future.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
**Build Strategy**
+ Tailors Microsoft standard messaging to audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products.
+ Learns about Microsoft capability to contribute to strategy development and how to provide strategic and technical input.
+ Tailors Microsoft value messaging to audience.
+ Reviews customer interactions and raises and acts on customer compete information to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies.
+ Learns how to serve as the voice of the customer (VOC) through feedback, blockers, insights, and resources (e.g., unified action tracker (UAT), technical feedback platform across communities).
+ Assists team members to monitor, analyze, or implement action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer's business outcomes.
**Scale Customer Engagements**
+ Engages other resources (e.g., product and engineering teams) and learns to leverage programs and investments (e.g., Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), exec briefing center, partner workshops) with support from peers.
+ Develops understanding of standards and best practices (e.g., managed service provider (MSP), managed certified professional (MCP)). May support customer engagements through pre-sales activities while utilizing common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization.
+ Engages other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge, for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set.
+ Develops understanding of current customer context and anticipatesnext steps. Uses product expertise to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
+ Begins to develop awareness of available resources by familiarizing themselves with the community and engaging others to gain product knowledge. Engages other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge, for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set
+ Identifies customer needs and recommends suitable Microsoft solutions with support from peers. Improves customer interactions through feedback and observation.
+ Engages with and reaches out to customer technical and business decision makers with coaching from others.
**Scale Through Partners**
+ Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.
+ Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process. Supports the development of relationships with pre-sale team and partners. Work with manager or peer mentor to learn how to identifytop 5 to 10 partners to work with in applicable territories.
**Solution Design and Proof**
+ Presents basic reference architectures to partners or customers for key parts of their technology sets.
+ Learns about and uses existing demonstration assets. Contributes to demonstrations (e.g., proof of concept (POC) sessions with partners) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through early stage engagements with coaching from senior colleagues. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards with guidance.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Ensures customer technical teams are aware of and leveraging available for-scale skilling programs
+ May participate in local Microsoft tech community sessions, hackathon, attend community calls, etc.
+ Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practicesexpertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field OR equivalent experience.
+ This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational English & Swedish or Danish, or Finnish, or Norwegian, as you will be assigned to the Nordic Customer Market.
+ Technical Communication skills:The ability to adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding.
+ Problem Solving: The ability to identify problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
+ Presentation Delivery:The ability to deliver formal presentations to others. This includes sharing information on a range of topics in a clear, concise, engaging and convincing manner; commanding the audience's attention; using effective presentation materials.
This role is based in Ireland and has a work site flexibility of up to 50% work from home. If applying, please consider that you may be required to relocate to meet the requirements of this role.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
+ 1+ year(s) experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
+ Creativity:The ability to apply ingenuity, inventiveness, and imagination to the inclusive design and construction of a product, service, program, or initiative.
+ Decision Making:The ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. This includes the ability to define, diagnose, and determinean appropriate resolution, recommendation, or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, trade-offs).
+ Relationship Management:The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with supervisors, staff, managers, customers, and vendors. This includes expressing empathy and compassion when dealing with the needs and problems of others, being approachable, taking time to address the concerns of coworkers, and treating others with respect and dignity.
+ Microsoft Products: Knowledge of Microsoft products/services and the ability to participate in technical conversations related to products/services. Fundamental or Intermediate level credentials/certifications on Microsoft of competitive Cloud and/or AI Platforms, or willingness to attain the right technical certifications required for the role.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

Are you curious, passionate about infrastructure, and ready to solve complex challenges in the AI era? Join us as a Digital Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Azure Platform focused on the Cloud & AI platform for mid-market customers at Microsoft.
In this technical sales role, you'll help customers design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures that support their modernization goals. Using Cloud & AI's IaaS and PaaS services, you'll guide organizations through migration, optimization, and innovation-translating technical capabilities into real business outcomes.
You'll collaborate across teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance agility, reduce costs, and unlock value through AI-powered infrastructure.
At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team-one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry's most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.
SME&C is more than a sales organization-it's a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you'll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.
If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
As a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer on the Azure Platform, you'll play a key role in helping mid-market customers modernize their infrastructure and unlock the full value of Microsoft's cloud. You'll work directly with technical and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support AI workloads and business-critical applications.
You bring deep expertise in migrating core workloads-including Windows, SQL Server, Linux, PostgreSQL, and Oracle-to Cloud & AI. Beyond migration, you lead customers through modernization using the 6R strategy, containerization best practices, and Cloud & AI-native services like AKS and Arc, while exploring how AI and intelligent agents can accelerate legacy transformation. You also apply strong networking knowledge to design hybrid and cloud-native solutions, including virtual networks, VPNs, and secure routing architectures that meet enterprise performance and compliance needs. You complement this with trusted partner solutions like NetApp, VMware, RedHat, and SAP to ensure a secure, optimized, and scalable migration experience.
This opportunity will allow you to:
+ Accelerate your career growth by leading impactful engagements that help customers modernize their infrastructure and adopt secure, scalable cloud solutions.
+ Deepen your technical expertise through hands-on architecture design, migration planning, and implementation of hybrid and cloud-native environments.
+ Develop strategic influence by guiding customers through infrastructure modernization and shaping technical decisions that support AI and business-critical workloads.
+ Strengthen your collaboration skills by working closely with engineering teams, partners, and customer stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
To prepare for the role, you will be enrolled in the Elevate and Early-in-Profession (EiP) Program. Microsoft's Elevate and Early-in-Profession (EiP) programs exemplify the company's commitment to developing early-career talent through robust onboarding and mentorship. These programs are designed to accelerate new hires' productivity, integrate them into Microsoft's culture, and set them on a path for long-term growth within the company. Participants in Elevate/EiP benefit from a comprehensive onboarding experience that includes immersive training, structured job shadowing with seasoned colleagues, and continuous support from dedicated mentors. By investing heavily in the first six months of a new employee's tenure, Microsoft ensures its early-in-career hires build essential skills, confidence, and professional networks that will enable them to excel. 
As you join the team, You will have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise with access to a wide range of Microsoft learning resources-including support for earning industry-recognized certifications across Cloud & AI infrastructure, security, and AI.
With a solid understanding of Cloud & AI security services and compliance frameworks you will help customers meet regulatory requirements and build Cloud environments that are ready for the future.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
**Build Strategy**
+ Tailors Microsoft standard messaging to audience using knowledge of specific Microsoft products.
+ Learns about Microsoft capability to contribute to strategy development and how to provide strategic and technical input.
+ Tailors Microsoft value messaging to audience.
+ Reviews customer interactions and raises and acts on customer compete information to contribute to development and landing of compete strategies.
+ Learns how to serve as the voice of the customer (VOC) through feedback, blockers, insights, and resources (e.g., unified action tracker (UAT), technical feedback platform across communities).
+ Assists team members to monitor, analyze, or implement action plans to promote customer usage of key/prioritized Microsoft solutions/products that support customer's business outcomes.
**Scale Customer Engagements**
+ Engages other resources (e.g., product and engineering teams) and learns to leverage programs and investments (e.g., Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), exec briefing center, partner workshops) with support from peers.
+ Develops understanding of standards and best practices (e.g., managed service provider (MSP), managed certified professional (MCP)). May support customer engagements through pre-sales activities while utilizing common sales and delivery methodology for the Microsoft sales organization.
+ Engages other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge, for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set.
+ Develops understanding of current customer context and anticipatesnext steps. Uses product expertise to build credibility with customers individually or at scale.
+ Begins to develop awareness of available resources by familiarizing themselves with the community and engaging others to gain product knowledge. Engages other resources, leveraging basic resource knowledge, for key areas of technology as needed to overcome technical blockers on assigned technology set
+ Identifies customer needs and recommends suitable Microsoft solutions with support from peers. Improves customer interactions through feedback and observation.
+ Engages with and reaches out to customer technical and business decision makers with coaching from others.
**Scale Through Partners**
+ Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process.
+ Engages in partner sell-with scenarios by contributing to the facilitation of technical engagements and partnering with colleagues to manage the sales process. Supports the development of relationships with pre-sale team and partners. Work with manager or peer mentor to learn how to identifytop 5 to 10 partners to work with in applicable territories.
**Solution Design and Proof**
+ Presents basic reference architectures to partners or customers for key parts of their technology sets.
+ Learns about and uses existing demonstration assets. Contributes to demonstrations (e.g., proof of concept (POC) sessions with partners) of solutions based on specific Microsoft products through early stage engagements with coaching from senior colleagues. Leverages partner/customer teams as needed to prove product capabilities and integration into customer environment. Reviews partner demonstrations and provides feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards with guidance.
**Technical Leadership**
+ Ensures customer technical teams are aware of and leveraging available for-scale skilling programs
+ May participate in local Microsoft tech community sessions, hackathon, attend community calls, etc.
+ Consumes and leverages readiness materials to expand domain knowledge and practicesexpertise by communicating with customers, partners, and senior colleagues.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field OR equivalent experience.
+ This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational English & German, as you will be assigned to the German Customer Market.
+ Technical Communication skills:The ability to adapt communications around different technologies, products, and services to the audience's level of understanding.
+ Problem Solving: The ability to identify problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
+ Presentation Delivery:The ability to deliver formal presentations to others. This includes sharing information on a range of topics in a clear, concise, engaging and convincing manner; commanding the audience's attention; using effective presentation materials.
This role is based in Ireland and has a work site flexibility of up to 50% work from home. If applying, please consider that you may be required to relocate to meet the requirements of this role.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience.
+ 1+ year(s) experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
+ Creativity:The ability to apply ingenuity, inventiveness, and imagination to the inclusive design and construction of a product, service, program, or initiative.
+ Decision Making:The ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. This includes the ability to define, diagnose, and determinean appropriate resolution, recommendation, or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, trade-offs).
+ Relationship Management:The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with supervisors, staff, managers, customers, and vendors. This includes expressing empathy and compassion when dealing with the needs and problems of others, being approachable, taking time to address the concerns of coworkers, and treating others with respect and dignity.
+ Microsoft Products: Knowledge of Microsoft products/services and the ability to participate in technical conversations related to products/services. Fundamental or Intermediate level credentials/certifications on Microsoft of competitive Cloud and/or AI Platforms, or willingness to attain the right technical certifications required for the role.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .

**Minimum qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
+ 15 years of experience in technical or GTM planning for a cloud business in a customer-facing or support role.
+ Experience executing scaled GTM motions; leading the business through insights into performance.
**Preferred qualifications:**
+ Experience with content creation and narrative development.
+ Experience selling cloud products.
+ Ability to collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and import and export talent and ideas to achieve broader organizational goals.
+ Ability to learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
As the Go-to-Market (GTM) Infrastructure Lead, EMEA for Google Cloud, you will drive the regional application and operationalization of the GTM plan for your practice area of infrastructure. The GTM Infra Lead is responsible for providing dedicated accountability by play in a region and implementing a tight feedback loop to inform changes required to accelerate goal attainment. This role will partner with the sub-regional Growth Leaders who will lead execution of the plays in partnership with the sub-regional business leaders.
You will showcase strong leadership capabilities and judgement by crafting the application of the GTM plan and orchestrating the right execution model for Google Cloud's objectives and the regional landscape. You will partner with key cross-functional stakeholders across GTM and Engineering to manage and iterate on the plan. Finally, you will recommend ways to adapt as the market and customer needs change.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Orchestrate cross functional application of the regional infrastructure plan across stakeholder teams such as Enablement, Marketing, Partners, Services and others.
+ Collaborate with the Global Practice Lead and Regional GTM Practice Leader to refine the GTM plan and strategy, incorporating regional performance insights.
+ Drive measurable field engagement with GTM plays, monitoring adoption through enablement and progress towards financial goals.
+ Track and analyze critical success metrics and Key Performance Indicators for GTM plays, providing insights to regional sales leaders and aligning with Global Practice Leads on performance and necessary adjustments.
+ Conduct quarterly and monthly business reviews for infrastructure, reporting on the progress of GTM initiatives and facilitating a continuous feedback loop.
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