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Junior DevOps Engineer

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    Ref: #JOB-2413195
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    Co. Dublin,
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    No of positions: 1
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    40 hours per week
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    Negotiable
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    Published On: 23 Sep 2025
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    Closing On: 21 Oct 2025

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Role:DevOps Engineer
Location: Dublin

Primary Skill: Kafka, Jenkins, Chef, Scripting, SRE, Splunk, Dynatrace(Any monitoring tool)

Secondary Skills: git, XLR

• Expertise in managing and operating Apache Kafka, NATS and MQ. Includes configuring topics (Kafka) or subjects (NATS), ensuring high availability, scaling clusters, monitoring performance metrics (e.g., consumer lag, throughput), and troubleshooting issues like message loss or latency. Involves understanding partitioning (Kafka) and pub/sub patterns (NATS) for event streaming and messaging.
• Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, Java, or Bash for automation scripts, tools, and integrations. Involves writing clean, maintainable code, debugging, API interactions, version control (e.g., Git), and unit testing.
• Proficiency in tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Jaeger/Zipkin for logs, metrics, and tracing. Involves defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), setting Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and creating dashboards for system health insights.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions. Includes automating build, test, and deployment processes, as well as rollback mechanisms for reliability.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix. Includes managing processes, file systems, permissions, kernel tuning, shell scripting, server configuration, updates, and security.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code (IaC). Includes managing virtual machines, serverless architectures, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) for scalability and high availability.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and firewalls. Includes configuring network services and troubleshooting with tools like Wireshark or traceroute.
• Skills in diagnosing and resolving production issues using logs, metrics, and debugging tools. Includes incident management (e.g., PagerDuty), root cause analysis (RCA), and blameless postmortems.
• Familiarity with securing infrastructure, managing secrets (e.g., Vault), zero-trust principles, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR). Includes vulnerability 
management and secure configuration.  
  • This vacancy is suitable for Remote/Blended working
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Career Level

  • Experienced [Non-Managerial]

Candidate Requirements

Essential Desirable

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