Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps engineer at Ripple (blockchain-based payments for financial institutions) based in Dublin, building and maintaining multi-region, multi-provider cloud platforms: developer and production infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, capacity/load testing, and release automation, primarily on Azure and AWS with Kubernetes and IaC tooling.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Extensive hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and large-scale multi-region distributed systems, preferably on Azure and AWS
- Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and experience managing container orchestration platforms and runtimes, including Docker and OCI
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Azure Bicep, and AWS CloudFormation
- Strong understanding of platform engineering fundamentals: automation, reliability, scalability, high availability, operational excellence
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including automated environment provisioning, regression testing, and containerized build/deployment workflows
- Experience managing artifact repositories and storage systems for build dependencies and pipeline artifacts
- Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and scripting languages such as Bash and Python
- Experience operating, administering, and troubleshooting production infrastructure with focus on performance, security, and reliability
- Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with a team-oriented mindset
Full description
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
THE WORK:
Developer Operations (DevOps) at Ripple manages communication, collaboration, and integration between Development and Operations teams. They ensure infrastructures, tools, and processes are streamlined and effective for automated product delivery.
The Senior Software Engineer, DevOps will contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies and use a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. You will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's development and production infrastructure, improving our DevOps process including deployment, monitoring, instrumentation and overall infrastructure management.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
- Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
- Work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
- Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
- Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
- Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Extensive hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and large-scale, multi-region distributed systems, preferably on Azure and AWS
- Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and experience managing container orchestration platforms and runtimes, including Docker and OCI.