Principal DevOps Engineer

6 Months Contract (highly likely to extend past that) Hybrid role, Galway based (Must be based within a commutable distance from their Galway office) €550-€600 Daily Rate Eligible candidates must hold a minimum of Stamp4 Visa and be based in the Galway area. Our client, a leading financial services firm, is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership across cloud, platform engineering and operational excellence. This is a highly senior role with a strong focus on SRE, platform design, AWS and Kubernetes, rather than being focused solely on build and release. The successful person will help shape modern software delivery practices, driving the adoption of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, GitOps, observability, intelligent automation and AI-enabled engineering capabilities.

Your Role

• Lead the adoption of GitOps and Platform Engineering practices to improve deployment reliability, scalability, governance and developer experience. • Drive AI-enabled DevOps initiatives that reduce operational toil and accelerate engineering productivity through intelligent automation. • Identify opportunities to leverage Agentic AI capabilities for incident management, deployment validation, operational workflows and production support within established governance frameworks. • Partner with development, engineering, architecture, infrastructure and security teams to establish next-generation DevOps capabilities incorporating GitOps, AIOps and AI-driven…