Principal DevOps Engineer

Reperio Human Capital Ltd — Ireland · Posted ~3 hours ago

Lead Hybrid

Skills

DevOps Infrastructure as code Kubernetes Cloud infrastructure On-premise infrastructure CI/CD Secure private networks Infrastructure as Code

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A fast-growing software organization is seeking a principal DevOps engineer to own platform infrastructure from architecture through production. You will build infrastructure as code, operate Kubernetes across cloud and on-premise environments, maintain deployment workflows for offline environments, own CI/CD, and design secure private networks. Most work is remote with occasional office attendance.

Highlights

Highly influential individual-contributor role with ownership of infrastructure from design through production, mostly remote work, direct collaboration with the CTO, and responsibility for cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.

Description

Principal DevOps Engineer A fast-growing, venture-backed software company building an AI-driven data analytics platform. Its clients are government, security and financial-services organisations. The platform runs in the cloud, on-premise and in fully air-gapped environments. The role You'll be a senior, hands-on engineer who owns the platform's infrastructure from design through to production. You'll report directly to the CTO and work alongside a small DevOps team. This is an individual contributor role with real influence over technical direction. Most of your time will be remote, with 1-2 days a month in the Galway office. What you'll do Build and run all environments as infrastructure-as-code, from CI through to productionDesign and operate Kubernetes clusters, both in the cloud and on-premiseBuild and maintain an offline installer for air-gapped customer deploymentsOwn the CI/CD pipelines and keep local developer environments consistent with productionRun secure private networks with controlled egressLook after self-hosted observability: monitoring, logging, tracing and alertingDeploy and operate AI model endpoints and inference serving, including GPU capacity planningSupport customer IT teams during installations and upgradesKeep architecture docs, a decision log and runbooks up to dateWhat you'll bring Extensive experience running production Kubernetes, both in the cloud and on-premiseA track record of owning infrastructure end to endStrong Linux administration, networking and troubleshooting skillsInfrastructure-as-code and CI/CD experienceScripting ability in Bash, Python or similarExperience with self-hosted observability tools such as Prometheus, Loki or similarClear technical writing and excellent spoken and written EnglishExperience working directly with customer IT teams on on-prem installsNice to have Experience delivering software into air-gapped environmentsRKE2/K3sPostgres, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Temporal and S3-compatible storageLLM and model serving, such as vLLM, Ray Serve or similarInterested? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation. Reperio Human Capital acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business.