Senior Environment Automation Engineer – Dublin.

The Client

Our client, a leading banks in Ireland, is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Environment Automation Engineer to work in Dublin, Ireland.

What You’ll Love

This role is part of a long-term strategic project within the Bank, so this is an opportunity to work for the top bank in the country on a Permanent / Rolling Contract basis. The role offers a Competitive Day Rate and Hybrid working option is available.

What you are expected to have

10+ years of experience in DevOps, Environment Automation, Platform Engineering, or a related role. 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications or platforms. Demonstrable deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis capability under pressure. Strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, and Python scripting. Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform. Proficiency with Git, GitHub, or GitLab and branching workflows. Hands-on experience with Jenkins pipeline administration and development. Solid Linux administration skills (Windows knowledge is an advantage). Experience with release and deployment management practices. Experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes container platforms. Experience working with AWS cloud (Azure or GCP experience is also acceptable). Experience working in enterprise-scale, regulated environments. Experience with monitoring and observability tools. Knowledge of SSL/MTLS certificates. Experience supporting environments across the full software delivery lifecycle, including test and production environments. Strong understanding of release management, deployment automation, and environment promotion strategies. Experience working within controlled production change processes. Proven track record of replacing manual processes with automation. Strong troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, operating system, network, infrastructure, and deployment tooling layers. Preferred Qualifications Experience in the financial services or other regulated sectors. Knowledge of security and compliance automation is desirable. Experience implementing or working with DORA metrics. Exposure to Agentic AI, AI-assisted operational automation, intelligent workflow orchestration, AI-driven incident management, AI-enabled deployment validation, or Generative AI technologies is an advantage.

What you will do

Environment Automation & Engineering Design, build and maintain automation for environment provisioning, configuration and operational support. Develop reusable automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python and Jenkins. Identify repetitive manual activities and replace them with reliable automated solutions. Build self-service capability to allow delivery teams to complete standard environment requests without manual EMS intervention. Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption across the environment estate, from System Test through to Production. Improve automation standards, templates, scripts, pipelines and reusable engineering patterns. Ensure automation is documented, supportable and transferable across the team. Environment Troubleshooting & Stability Lead investigation of environment issues, deployment failures and platform instability. Troubleshoot across application, middleware, operating system, network, infrastructure and deployment tooling layers. Analyse pipeline failures, logs, monitoring output and infrastructure events. Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions. Support critical releases, urgent environment issues and major incidents impacting delivery. Ensure recurring issues are resolved through engineering improvements rather than repeated manual workarounds. Deployment & Tooling Support Support Jenkins pipeline administration, troubleshooting and enhancement. Improve deployment reliability across all environments, from System Test through to Production. Standardise deployment support processes across platforms and applications. Partner with application and platform teams to improve release readiness. Help introduce deployment controls, validation checks and automated guardrails. Support environment readiness activities for major releases and project milestones. Continuous Improvement Partner with SMEs and support engineers to capture, simplify and automate manual processes. Improve monitoring, logging and operational visibility across environments. Contribute to platform modernisation initiatives, including OpenShift, containers and cloud adoption. Promote automation best practice and upskill colleagues where required. Build trust through small, visible improvements before scaling larger automation changes. Contribute to service standards, operational procedures and continuous improvement roadmaps. Governance, Risk & Operational Control Ensure automation aligns with Bank standards, control requirements and audit expectations. Maintain clear documentation, runbooks and evidence for automated processes. Support controlled change and release delivery across all environments in line with Bank governance and risk requirements. Help reduce operational risk by improving consistency, repeatability and traceability. Ensure environment changes are delivered in a controlled, transparent and supportable manner.

You are good to apply if you are

Irish or EU or British Citizen, or holding a Stamp 4 or Stamp 1G permit. Residing in the specified job location currently Why Should You Apply? Aside from a highly competitive day rate/salary, this is a role that will provide a great balance of support and challenge for someone who wants to take the next step in their career.

Interested? Apply here

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