Automation/ QA Engineer

DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will develop services, controls and patterns for cloud solutions that enable security and privacy at scale, while ensuring adherence to best practice around system design, development, security, release, monitoring and support. You will be contributing to architectural discussions and decisions, attending stand-ups and driving progress. You will also proactively automate infrastructure and services to enable a small team to deliver value to a global enterprise.

This role will be responsible for planning and estimation for programmes of work and coordinating hosting systems development and operations. You will gather and analyse data to aid in informed decision-making while providing detailed, realistic estimates.

This role will work with Product, QA and Software Dev teams to drive delivery and you’ll work closely with product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases/user stories, and then translate them into pragmatic and effective technical solutions.

We are looking to speak to candidates based anywhere in Ireland who are happy to work remotely full-time or to work in our Teckro Dublin or Limerick offices when we reintegrate staff back to office. Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must currently be based in Ireland and hold a valid Stamp 4 visa or UK/EU citizenship.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Setup and maintain AWS servers and services
  • Maintain and troubleshoot the Teckro applications and Linux services
  • Work with Product, QA and Software Dev teams to drive delivery
  • Promoting and advocating Agile and end to end CI/CD
  • Attending stand-ups and driving progress
  • Planning and estimation for programmes of work
  • Coordinate hosting systems development and operations
  • Drive optimisation for scalability, efficiency and maintainability in a practical way
  • Help define technical solutions to meet business needs through an Agile process
  • Automate infrastructure and services to enable a small team to deliver value to a global enterprise
  • Take responsibility for the quality of your own deliverables
  • Drive to continuously improve our products

Technical Skills, a good understanding of:

  • The DevOps role and best practices in AWS environment
  • Working in an Agile environment
  • Modern programming languages, systems, and architectures
  • Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Performance and scalability optimisation
  • Cloud hosting security practices
  • MySQL databases
  • Nginx or Apache webservers
  • Jenkins
  • Git

Personal Skills

  • Strong customer, product and design focus
  • Analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to pay close attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy
  • At ease working in an environment where you will be technically challenged
  • strong communication and team working ability

Qualifications Required

  • 2+ years experience in software development/DevOps environments
  • Undergraduate or Postgraduate degree in an appropriate field (Engineering, Computer Science, Science)
  • Experience working in a regulated industry an advantage
  • Experience working in early-stage technology companies