Senior DevOps Engineer (Ireland based)

Role Type and Location

• Work from home role working & located full time in Ireland 
• Occasional Travel may be required 
• Occasional out of hours also required
  

Eligibility to work

• Regrettably we can’t offer Irish Visa/work sponsorship for this Irish based role 

Note: We are hiring directly and not engaging  recruitment agencies in our search. 

About this Role 

• This is a new role  on our newly created DevOps team 
  
• You will own the reliability, security, and standardisation of Deciphex’s cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working closely with our Principal Engineer, you will drive the DevOps stream that underpins product delivery, SRE maturity, and security posture.
• This is a hands-on senior role with meaningful influence over platform standards and engineering experience.

What you'll help us achieve

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Maintain and improve AWS environments, including Control Tower and multi-account governance.
• Implement and maintain Terraform modules for standardised infrastructure deployment.
• Support GPU infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments.
  

Kubernetes & GitOps

• Operate and optimise Kubernetes clusters, ingress, service mesh, logging, and metrics pipelines.
• Maintain and improve GitOps tooling (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Build and maintain Helm templates and infrastructure charts.
• Manage cluster lifecycle and upgrade strategy.

CI/CD & Reliability

• Maintain Linux runners and hardened CI/CD workflows.
• Improve deployment reliability, rollback safety, and release flow.
• Enhance observability through metrics, dashboards, and alerts.

Security-by-Default

• Implement secure identity, access, and secrets patterns in infrastructure and pipelines.
• Partner with Cybersecurity Engineering to embed guardrails and secure defaults.

Awareness & Best Practices

• Promote secure, reliable DevOps practices across engineering teams.
• Maintain shared templates and standards (Helm, GitOps, IaC, pipelines).
• Share practical knowledge through documentation and short internal sessions.

What you'll need to be successful in the role

Required

• 5/6+ years DevOps / Cloud
• AWS environment (mandatory) 
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux), Helm, Terraform.
• Strong CI/CD experience (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Familiarity with Java based deployment 
• Solid understanding of cloud identity, RBAC, and least-privilege models.
• Experience with logging/monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, OpenTelemetry).

Bonus points if you have all the above + any of the following 

• Experience supporting GPU infrastructure.
• SRE experience with on-prem and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Zero-Trust patterns and secure DevOps principles.
• Experience working in regulated environments (healthcare, pharma, ISO 27001, SOC2).

Success Indicators 

• Platform reliability improves and deployment failures decrease.
• Infrastructure changes are predictable and well understood.
• Engineering teams adopt shared standards with minimal friction.

What This Is Not

• Not an infrastructure ticket-queue role.
• Not a siloed engineering position.
• Not a one-off project role.
  

What are the benefits of working with Deciphex?

✨ Meaningful work that improves patient outcomes.
🚀 Exciting and challenging projects in a hyper-growth AI enabled company.

🚀 We go beyond being AI-enabled, giving our people access to AI tools and expect their everyday use to work more efficiently in your role
📈 Regular feedback with strong career growth opportunities.
🏡 Flexible remote model with autonomy to balance work and life (some roles require on-site presence).
🌎 Supportive, multicultural, and collaborative team.

About Us

Through the work that we do, the team at Deciphex helps pharma to accelerate the process of essential drug development and helps cancer patients get a timely and accurate diagnosis. 

Founded in Dublin in 2017, Deciphex has scaled rapidly to a team of over 230 people and counting who are providing software solutions to address the pathology gap in research pathology and clinical areas. We have offices in Dublin, Exeter and Chicago and are expanding our team throughout the world.

We are software developers, clinical specialists, artificial intelligence engineers, operations professionals and so much more, all working as one team to support our customers and patients.

Read more about Deciphex & our Group here and more about our incredible team on our Careers Page here

Deciphex is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to the principle of equality. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race,  religious beliefs, political views, gender identity, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, family or marital status (including pregnancy), disability, membership of the travelling community or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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