I am looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer with 5+ years’ experience to design, build and optimise highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure across Azure and GCP. You’ll be hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible and Python, driving cloud automation, CI/CD, observability and cloud-native engineering practices. This is a senior technical role offering the opportunity to influence architecture, mentor engineers and work closely with development and engineering teams to improve the reliability, security and performance of a global SaaS platform.
Key Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience deploying and supporting SaaS products across Azure and GCP.
- Proven ability to design, implement and optimise highly available, scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure.
- 4+ years’ experience with one or more programming/scripting languages, including Python, Java, Go or Bash.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
- Strong experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, packaging and deployment processes.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices and containerised environments.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
- Strong Unix/Linux systems administration background.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, SecOps and compliance best practices.
- Experience working with development teams to implement and maintain CI/CD tools and processes.
- Ability to conduct code/technical reviews and promote engineering best practices.
- Experience providing technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex infrastructure and scalability challenges.
Key Skills
- Cloud: Azure, GCP
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Programming/Scripting: Python, Java, Go, Bash
- Cloud Native: Microservices, SaaS, High Availability, Scalability
- Databases & Distributed Systems: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, ScyllaDB, Redis, Kafka
- Systems: Unix/Linux Administration
- Observability: Monitoring, Logging, Troubleshooting, Performance Optimisation
- Security: Cloud Security, SecOps, Compliance
- Automation: Infrastructure Automation, Operational Efficiency, Deployment Automation
- Development Practices: Agile, Kanban, CI/CD, Code Reviews
- Leadership: Technical Mentoring, Peer Reviews, Engineering Best Practices
Must hold Stamp 4, EU or Irish passport - this is a hybrid role in Dublin
shane.doolin@realtime.jobs with your CV or Direct message me to chat