Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud/TechOps Engineer

18-Month Contract – up to €54 per hour – 40 hours a week

Dublin 2 – hybrid working – 2 days a week onsite

AWS will be the primary cloud platform for this role. The engineer should also have a good working knowledge of other major cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as some of our clients operate on these platforms or have hybrid/on-premises environments that integrate with our services.

The role focuses on production reliability, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, security, incident management, disaster recovery, performance, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 10+ years of IT/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 5+ years of strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting production AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, OS configuration, troubleshooting, and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, cloud architecture, and high-availability principles.
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Shell.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and SRE practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Splunk, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong experience managing high-severity production incidents and performing deep technical RCA.
• Experience with DR, BCP, RTO/RPO, and resilience solutions.
• Experience with messaging middleware, particularly IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, or JMS.
• Experience with cloud security, vulnerability remediation, audit, and compliance.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization / FinOps.
• Working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience working in regulated, enterprise, and client-facing environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work across Application, Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, Network, DBA, and Product teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and critical production support activities.

Preferred / Differentiating Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer certification.
• Strong SRE experience.
• Automated remediation / self-healing infrastructure.
• Multi-region AWS architecture.
• Hybrid cloud and on-premises integration experience.
• Experience migrating legacy applications/infrastructure to AWS.
• Strong experience with ECS, EKS, MSK/Kafka, OpenSearch, and event-driven architectures.
• PostgreSQL administration, upgrades, and migrations.
• Demonstrated delivery of significant AWS cost reductions.
• OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing experience.
• Experience using GenAI for engineering and operational productivity.
• Experience operating large-scale, business-critical, client-facing platforms.