Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer Dublin (Hybrid – 1 day per week onsite) €120K / €125K p/a + bonus, health insurance, pension etc The Company A scale-up building tools that help streamline complex, data-heavy processes in a highly regulated industry. The Role This is a senior, org-wide technical leadership role rather than a single-team position. You'll set the long-term direction for cloud, platform and DevOps practices across the business, acting as the go-to authority on AWS architecture, K8s strategy and platform design. You'll lead cross-team initiatives to improve reliability, scalability, security and delivery efficiency, establish engineering standards, and partner with Engineering & Product leadership to keep platform strategy aligned with the wider business. Expect to spot architectural risk and technical debt before it becomes a delivery problem, shape build-vs-buy and tooling decisions, and mentor engineers across teams. You'll stay hands-on for high impact design and hard technical problems, rather than day-to-day ownership. The Person 9+ years in DevOps/Platform engineering, with some time spent leading or setting direction.AWS expertise across complex, multi-account environments.Expert working knowledge of K8s.Practical agentic AI experience, ideally introducing solutions across an organisation.Excellent communication skills. Relevant to... platform engineer, devops engineer, infrastructure engineer, sre, principal devops engineer, lead devops engineer, lead platform engineer, principal platform engineer