Staff Engineer, DevOps

Staff Engineer, DevOps – LearnUpon

Location: Dublin, Ireland (flex – 1 day per week from office)

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train employees and partners through a single powerful solution. With offices in Dublin, Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and Sydney, we are a global team focused on delivering customer‑centric learning products.

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• Drive DevOps best practices around CI/CD, automation, scalability, and reliability across LearnUpon's infrastructure and pipelines.
  
• Lead technical innovation and strategic initiatives across multiple teams and services.
  
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to elevate the entire engineering organization.
  
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and cross‑functional partners to shape our long‑term technical roadmap and strategy.
  
• Identify and solve complex technical challenges that significantly impact LearnUpon's growth and success.
  
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, system design, and operational excellence.
  
• Resolve conflicts and drive alignment between teams to build a cohesive engineering culture.
  

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• 8+ years of exceptional DevOps/SRE experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership in large‑scale, distributed systems.
  
• Deep focus on containerized environments, supporting local development, CI/CD workflows, and deployment across cloud platforms.
  
• Proven expertise in AWS, with a deep understanding of scalability, reliability, and security in production environments.
  
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Helm charts as foundations for modern infrastructure orchestration.
  
• Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, Ansible) to build modular, reusable infrastructure patterns.
  
• Expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and developing automation tooling (Bash, Python, Go).
  
• Demonstrated success in leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams and services.
  
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels.
  
• Track record of mentoring and elevating the skills of other engineers, including senior‑level talent.
  

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• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
  
• Comprehensive private health insurance scheme and company pension scheme.
  
• 25 days annual leave plus one annual wellness day off.
  
• Fun and supportive environment with regular team events.
  
• Excellent career progression opportunities.
  

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• Screening call.
  
• Series of practical interviews.
  
• Short interview with a member of our C‑Suite team.
  
• Offer to join our team.
  

Equal Opportunities Employer

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or any other legally protected status. xcfaprz

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