Tech Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Tech Lead DevOps Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Galway - hybrid working policy

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join our client's dynamic TechOps SRE team as a Tech Lead DevOps Engineer! This is an incredible opportunity for you to make a substantial impact on our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy while collaborating with talented engineers in a fun and rapidly changing environment.

What You'll Do:
As a principal member of our TechOps SRE team, you will:

Collaborate closely with engineering partners to drive initiatives from design to implementation.
Manage and maintain our highly available multi-region Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS, supporting mission-critical workloads.
Lead the initiative to craft and deploy applications to the cloud, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and resilient.
Promote a DevOps mentality, establishing best practises for AWS infrastructure-as-code.
Champion automation tools to enhance software delivery and minimise risks.
What We're Looking For:
We need someone who brings:

5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment.
Proven experience building and deploying Docker images.
Expertise in migrating applications from container orchestration solutions (like ECS) to Kubernetes, ideally on EKS.
Production experience running Kubernetes workloads, particularly on AWS EKS.
Experience managing Kubernetes Clusters and creating/deploying Helm charts.
Familiarity with Confluent or Kafka, and monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, or Splunk Cloud.

Skills and Expertise:

Proficiency in UNIX operating systems and shell scripting.
Strong experience managing services in a large AWS cross-account environment.
Ability to communicate effectively across all levels with excellent written and verbal skills.
A knack for seeing problems as opportunities to automate and innovate.
Proven track record of providing technical leadership to teams of Site Reliability Engineers or Cloud Engineers.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), preferably using Terraform.
Programming experience in Python is preferred, along with familiarity with Git and the agile software development lifecycle.

Why Join?

Impact: Play a key role in shaping the future of our infrastructure and deployments.
Collaboration: Work multi-functionally with diverse teams, including risk, product, and engineering leaders.
Growth: Continue to develop your skills in a stimulating and supportive environment.
Culture: Enjoy a cheerful yet professional atmosphere that values innovation and teamwork.
If you're driven, passionate, and eager to lead the charge in cloud technologies, we want to hear from you! Join us in making a direct impact on the expanding strategies of our infrastructure.

Apply Now!
Don't miss out on this phenomenal opportunity to be a part of something exciting. Your next big career move awaits!

If this opportunity sparks your interest, please reach out via email at natalia.merritt (at) adecco.ie.
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