Principal DevOps Engineer

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 production
• Design and operate Kubernetes clusters, both in the cloud and on-premise
• Build and maintain an offline installer for air-gapped customer deployments
• Own the CI/CD pipelines and keep local developer environments consistent with production
• Run secure private networks with controlled egress
• Look after self-hosted observability: monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
• Deploy and operate AI model endpoints and inference serving, including GPU capacity planning
• Support customer IT teams during installations and upgrades
• Keep architecture docs, a decision log and runbooks up to date

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience running production Kubernetes, both in the cloud and on-premise
• A track record of owning infrastructure end to end
• Strong Linux administration, networking and troubleshooting skills
• Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD experience
• Scripting ability in Bash, Python or similar
• Experience with self-hosted observability tools such as Prometheus, Loki or similar
• Clear technical writing and excellent spoken and written English
• Experience working directly with customer IT teams on on-prem installs

Nice to have

• Experience delivering software into air-gapped environments
• RKE2/K3s
• Postgres, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Temporal and S3-compatible storage
• LLM and model serving, such as vLLM, Ray Serve or similar

Interested? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

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