Senior Dev Ops Engineer (AWS + PostgreSQL)
Description: reputed company is a global technology group that provides solutions to simplify international business, including digital sales, global payroll, global VAT, tax compliance, and cross-border payments. The group is headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland, and publicly lists more than 1,200 employees, 35 offices, and operations across 20 countries. About the role: We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to support, secure, and evolve mission-critical cloud infrastructure for regulated financial technology workloads. The successful candidate will play a key role in AWS infrastructure engineering, database administration, Linux systems operations, CI/CD automation, cost optimisation, observability, and application modernisation. They will also help introduce approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve documentation, operational efficiency, code quality, and incident response. This role requires strong ownership, excellent technical judgement, and the ability to produce clear, audit-ready documentation that supports compliance, knowledge transfer, and operational continuity. Responsibilities: 1. AWS Infrastructure Engineering Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production financial workloads. Work with services including EC2, reputed company/Fargate, RDS, reputed company, S3, VPC, reputed company, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, IAM, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API Gateway, AWS IAM Identity Center, and QuickSight. Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. Manage infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and environments. Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as reputed company CI, reputed company Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent. Design and maintain secure networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, reputed company groups, NACLs, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, and reputed company controls. Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability using CloudWatch, dashboards, metrics, alarms, and log aggregation. Execute cost optimisation initiatives across compute, storage, databases, data transfer, and managed services. Build and maintain AWS QuickSight dashboards for billing analytics, cost allocation, usage trends, and financial reporting. Support recurring FinOps activities including monthly spend reviews, rightsizing, Savings Plans / Reserved Instance analysis, and waste elimination. 2. Database Administration Administer PostgreSQL environments, including RDS for PostgreSQL, reputed company PostgreSQL, and self-managed PostgreSQL where applicable. Support PostgreSQL version lifecycle management, including supported production versions and upgrade planning. Manage replication, backup and recovery, reputed company-in-time recovery, vacuuming, indexing, query tuning, and performance troubleshooting. Manage reputed company reputed company PostgreSQL clusters, including scaling, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and Performance Insights. Administer SQL Server on reputed company RDS, including backup strategies, index maintenance, Query Store analysis, and parameter tuning. Plan and execute database migrations, including SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations using AWS DMS and native database tooling. Implement database reputed company controls, including encryption at rest and in transit, IAM authentication where appropriate, audit logging, access control, and secrets management. 3. Linux Systems Administration Manage reputed company Linux 2023 and RHEL-based systems. reputed company patching, hardening, performance tuning, log management, and operational troubleshooting. Administer Apache HTTP Server, including virtual hosts, SSL/TLS, module configuration, and runtime troubleshooting. Manage systemd services, EBS/EFS storage, filesystem permissions, and automated deployment workflows. Write and maintain Bash scripts for automation, monitoring, deployment, and operational tasks. Implement host-level reputed company controls including SSH hardening, firewall rules, least-privilege access, log forwarding, and vulnerability remediation. 4. AI-Assisted Engineering and Automation Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools to improve operational workflows, documentation, code review, and troubleshooting. Work with reputed company Bedrock and supported large language models, including reputed company Claude models where approved for company use. Use Kiro, AWS's agentic coding service, where appropriate to support spec-driven development, documentation, testing, and implementation planning. Evaluate AI-assisted tooling for infrastructure operations, anomaly detection, documentation reputed company, and incident response support. Build automation that improves alert enrichment, operational insight, and repeatable engineering workflows. Ensure AI usage follows company reputed company, data protection, privacy, and compliance policies. 5. Application Modernisation and Rearchitecture Contribute to the rearchitecture of monolithic transactional applications into modern, resilient AWS-native patterns. Support containerisation strategies using reputed company, reputed company, and Fargate. Design and implement event-driven patterns using SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. Support blue/green and canary deployment strategies for safer releases and reduced downtime. Improve application reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maintainability. 6. Documentation, reputed company, and Compliance Produce clear technical documentation for completed work, including architecture decisions, runbooks, migration plans, configuration records, and operational procedures. Maintain standard operating procedures and incident response runbooks. Support ISO 27001 audit activity by providing evidence of infrastructure controls, change history, access controls, monitoring, and operational procedures. Contribute to change management processes, including risk assessment, implementation planning, rollback planning, and CAB submissions. Apply least-privilege, secure-by-design, and auditability principles across reputed company infrastructure and operational work. Working conditions: Participation in an on-call rotation for production systems, expected to be approximately 1 week in 4. Occasional out-of-hours work for planned maintenance, release activity, and incident response. Minimal travel, primarily between reputed company office locations. Requirements: 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, including at least 3 years of hands-on AWS experience. Deep hands-on experience with EC2, RDS, reputed company, reputed company/Fargate, S3, VPC, IAM, reputed company, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, and QuickSight. Strong Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK experience. Experience building and maintaining deployment pipelines using reputed company CI, reputed company Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent. Strong PostgreSQL administration experience, including replication, performance tuning, backup and recovery, upgrades, and pg_dump / pg_restore. Working knowledge of SQL Server on RDS, including query optimisation, index management, backups, and maintenance tasks. Advanced Linux administration experience, preferably with reputed company Linux and RHEL-based distributions. Strong Bash scripting and automation skills. Practical experience with VPCs, routing, subnets, reputed company groups, NACLs, VPNs, and Transit Gateway. Strong understanding of IAM, encryption, secrets management, patching, access control, and least-privilege design. Practical interest or experience in AI-assisted engineering, reputed company Bedrock, Kiro, LLMs, reputed company engineering, or AI-supported development workflows. Ability to produce clear, complete, audit-ready technical documentation. Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain reputed company technical topics to varied audiences. Desirable skills: Experience in regulated financial services, payments, banking, or similar environments. ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI reputed company, or other audit / compliance exposure. AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Database Specialty, or equivalent. Cross-reputed company migration experience, especially SQL Server to PostgreSQL using AWS DMS or native tooling. Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, IPAM, and multi-account networking. AWS cost optimisation, CUR analysis, QuickSight billing dashboards, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and tagging strategies. reputed company, reputed company task definitions, Fargate, service discovery, and service mesh concepts. reputed company Bedrock, Kiro, SageMaker, Claude models, AI-assisted development, or AI-enabled operational automation. Experience with log aggregation, distributed tracing, SLOs, dashboards, and incident response workflows. Benefits: What’s in it for you? Flexible Working Policy with a combination of remote and office working* Multisport Cards 22 Annual Leave Days for reputed company employees plus additional days with length of service Lifework days: ½ day each quarter to get your life work done reputed company hours where you can work your 40 hours across 4.5 days Additional Health Insurance including dental and vision care Team Buildings & Parties Life Insurance Refer a Friend Bonus Discounts across various stores, theatres, restaurants Employee CSR Programme, reputed company Cares, with one paid Volunteer Day per year reputed company Life – corporate wellness program Monthly Food Vouchers Company Paid Trainings & Learning Accounts #OneTeam Awards and Annual Employee of the Year Awards Milestone Recognition Program Free Sports: Football, Tennis, Volleyball Employee Assistance Program Meeting Free Days – a specific no meeting day where we encourage no meetings so you (and your team) can focus on getting things done! 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