Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Manage AWS infrastructure that connects products to laboratory and customer systems.

• Ensure secure network pathways for research teams to access computing resources.

• Operate and scale customer connectivity services on EKS, including monitoring, firewall rules, and certificates.

• Deliver connectivity, network policies, and secrets as code, utilizing Terraform and Helm.

• Oversee and enhance cloud-hosted integration and laboratory platform services to ensure high availability and backup.

• Conduct disaster recovery exercises and maintain associated documentation.

• Manage secure network access to GPU and research computing across various cloud providers.

• Design the shared network and connectivity layer of the AWS multi-account landing zone.

• Create monitoring systems, flow-log analysis, and alerting to proactively identify faults.

• Implement patches and harden clusters, nodes, and images to meet security standards.

• Document the infrastructure as code.

• Take part in the on-call rotation, with scheduled changes outside of laboratory hours.

• Mentor team members.

• Set the technical direction and make critical design decisions.

• Report directly to the Principal Engineer - Cybersecurity & DevOps.

⛳️ Requirements

• Typically 5-6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.

• Profound knowledge of Linux/Windows networking, including iptables/nftables, routing, DNS, and TLS.

• Experience with site-to-site VPN and private connectivity using IPsec, WireGuard, or OpenVPN.

• Proficiency in tracing failing network flows with flow logs and packet capture techniques.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, preferably Amazon EKS.

• Familiarity with Helm, hardened Docker images, and debugging with kubectl.

• Experience in production infrastructure as code, ideally with Terraform or OpenTofu, including injecting secrets as code.

• AWS administration skills, including VPCs, endpoints, RDS, and IAM management.

• Adherence to disciplined production change practices: peer review, monitoring, runbooks, and tested recovery processes.

• Knowledge and experience in Windows and Linux networking, CI/CD, secrets management, and SSO or federation.

• Experience with cloud-based healthcare integration, laboratory connectivity to the cloud, GPU/research cloud environments, or regulated environments is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Must reside in Ireland or the UK.

• Must be eligible to work without requiring visa sponsorship in Ireland or the UK.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-based annual increases to acknowledge your contributions.

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits to support your wellbeing.

• Annual leave along with additional time off during the Christmas period.

• Engaging work that contributes to improved patient outcomes.

• Diverse and challenging projects that facilitate continuous learning.

• Regular performance feedback and career advancement opportunities.

• A supportive, multicultural team environment.