Immediate Start: Senior DevOps Engineer

19 hours ago


Dublin, Ireland EirGrid Group Full time

We are the people behind Ireland’s electricity grid. But that’s not all, we are now transforming the power system for future generations.

EirGrid Group has a unique role to play in leading the radical transformation of our power system in support of the transition to renewable energy. This will require pioneering engineering effort together with enhanced IT capability to respond successfully to the scale of disruption. This offers a unique opportunity to further your career in IT while playing a significant role in delivering EirGrid Group’s IT transformation.

Our future has never looked more exciting. And this is an incredible opportunity to be part of it. The world is ready for change. If you are too, join us.

Job Purpose

The Linux and DevOps team are well established within the IT Infrastructure Department and are responsible for the organisation’s extensive Linux, Oracle, PostGres and Microsoft SQL Server solutions. A particular focus of this team is to ensure the reliability of the various platforms whilst driving performance and functional improvements and new delivery mechanisms including virtualisation and cloud services.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join this team to develop and employ Eirgrid’s automated deployments which underpin the organisation’s corporate functions and mission-critical power system operation and market functions.

Your role will focus on supporting major programs of work to validate and test pipelines to deploy cloud-based systems.

The successful candidate will contribute to the overall success of Eirgrid by working as part of a team of IT professionals, undertaking senior database administration duties and driving project delivery and solution optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

- Responsible for implementation and maintenance of deployment pipelines and deployment strategy from Dev to Production in an on-premise, hybrid or cloud environment.
- Responsible for automated installation and configuration of deployment environments using Terraform/Ansible.
- Ensuring code readiness and validate against checklist for code promotion to higher environment.
- Ensuring that monitoring and alerts are correctly configured to notify of system issues.
- Enable Development Teams to have a seamless process for promoting code from development to higher environments.
- Develop and maintain maintenance plans to address technical issues, seeking opportunities for improvement and efficiency.
- Liaise with the EirGrid’s Governance & Planning team and business representatives to understand business needs and the wider context of developing and delivering IT solutions.
- Provide effective stakeholder management of both internal and external stakeholders including strategic vendors and service providers.
- Provide training and mentoring to junior staff.

About You

Successful candidates will have:

- An IT degree or recognised qualification in a relevant technical discipline supported by 5+ years’ experience in delivering and/or operating database solutions.
- Strong capability and experience in Azure.
- Strong experience in building and maintaining deployment pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, Groovy Scripting.
- Strong experience of working in with Agile frameworks – Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience with Logging and Monitoring tools – Splunk, Dynatrace - for performance analysis or Root Cause Analysis.
- Experience in Configuration Management Tools – Chef/Ansible/Puppet.
- Experience in Cloud Foundry, PCF is beneficial.

If you believe you have the skills and experience relevant for this position, please upload your CV and a cover letter (in one document).

Closing date for applications

8th January 2025

EirGrid is an Equal Opportunities Employer
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