DevOps Lead

Skillsource is partnering with a leading technology and engineering organisation to hire an experienced DevOps Lead. This is a handson deliveryfocused leadership role responsible for driving automation reliability and operational excellence across backend systems that manage POS terminals and terminal configuration.

Working closely with platform security engineering and product teams you will design and deliver CI/CD pipelines embed security tooling mature operational processes and ensure robust observability and release management across a complex regulated ecosystem.

This position is fully onsite in Nenagh Co. Tipperary.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Delivery & Automation

• Define and deliver DevOps strategies for POS Terminal Management Systems (TMS) and Terminal Configuration Systems (TCS).
• Translate roadmap and product requirements into CI/CD deployment and operational workstreams.
• Build maintain and optimise modern CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions etc.).

Security & Compliance

• Integrate SAST SCA and DAST tooling (e.g. Fortify) to support shiftleft security.
• Implement secure secrets and key lifecycle management including HSM interaction.
• Ensure deployments comply with regulatory audit and PCIrelated requirements.

Infrastructure & Environment Management

• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; manage Kubernetes and Helm deployments.
• Provision maintain and optimise dev test and production environments.
• Oversee configuration management and environmentspecific security controls.

Release Orchestration

• Design and execute release strategies: blue/green canary phased rollouts.
• Manage artefact repositories (Nexus Artifactory) and ensure safe auditable cutovers.

Observability Monitoring & Reliability

• Instrument logging metrics tracing (e.g. Splunk Dynatrace Prometheus Grafana).
• Define SLOs/SLIs support incident response and drive postincident reviews.

Performance & Cost Optimisation

• Lead capacity planning load/performance tuning and costefficient cloud design.

Testing & Quality Enablement

• Embed automated testing (unit integration contract E2E) throughout CI/CD pipelines.
• Coordinate devicefarm or emulator testing for terminal images.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with product security QA Android/terminal engineering and operations teams.
• Deliver clear technical status updates to programmes and senior stakeholders.

Required Experience & Skills

Technical Skills

• Proven background in DevOps SRE or platform engineering roles within large enterprise environments.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline development expertise (Jenkins GitLab GitHub Actions etc.).
• Handson experience with security governance tooling (Fortify SCA DAST).
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform Kubernetes Helm Docker.
• Strong scripting: Python Bash Groovy or similar.
• Backend ecosystem familiarity:
  • Java/Kotlin/Spring/Microservices
  • REST APIs
  • Kafka/message queues
  • Relational & NoSQL databases

Professional Attributes

• Strong clientfacing and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience leading teams; promoting knowledgesharing and mentoring.
• Comfortable in regulated or financial environments; PCI experience beneficial.
• High level of emotional intelligence communication and problemsolving.
• Innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Certifications beneficial (AWS/Azure/GCP Kubernetes CISSP etc.).
• ITIL knowledge advantageous.

Why Apply

• Opportunity to lead largescale DevOps and operational transformation.
• Impactful role within a missioncritical engineering domain.
• Support from a highly collaborative technology organisation.
• Competitive day rates and longterm project visibility.