Senior DevOps Engineer

We are Payslip, the global payroll control platform. We have a vision of how global payroll should be. We create great technology to make it happen. 

Our global teams are filled with inspired, passionate, creative and dedicated people from different backgrounds. 

Together, we are changing the way payroll is delivered at multinational companies around the world. 

Are you ready for something different? 

Due to continuing expansion, Payslip is looking for a talented and ambitious Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing engineering organization. In this role, you’ll work closely with both DevOps and development teams to design, build, and operate a scalable, secure AWS-based platform that enables reliable and safe software delivery. You’ll help shape the future of our DevOps practices and ensure systems are efficient, highly available, and cost-effective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to drive efficient, scalable system designs and processes,
• Support the evolution of a best-in-class DevOps organization with an “automate everything” mindset
• Promote and implement on-demand AWS services to meet business needs.
• Participate in Agile Scrum teams to take features from design through the full software development lifecycle,
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with QA automation to include automated and security testing,
• Define and implement high-availability deployment strategies with robust monitoring and rollback capabilities,
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for all infrastructure provisioning and management,
• Lead incident response and outage resolution, including root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation,
• Configure and improve monitoring and alerting systems to ensure rapid response to critical issues.

Qualifications and skills required:

• Experience: 7+ years in a DevOps engineering role or similar
• AWS Expertise: Strong working knowledge of AWS cloud services, architectures, and best practices is essential.

Core Technical Skills & Technologies:

• Containers & Compute: Docker, ECS (Fargate/EC2), AWS Lambda
• Networking & Edge: VPC design, multi-AZ, Route 53, ALB, CloudFront, WAF
• Data & Messaging: RDS (PostgreSQL), S3, EBS, EFS, SQS, SNS, ElastiCache (Redis)
• Security & IAM: AWS IAM best practices, KMS, encryption, secrets management
• CI/CD & IaC: Terraform (primary), GitLab CI/CD (desirable), AWS SAM
• Observability & Operations: CloudWatch metrics, logs, alarms, incident response
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with fluency in English.
• Strong sense of ownership and commitment to mentorship and knowledge sharing
• A passion for building reliable, scalable, and secure systems

What we offer:

• Innovative global payroll platform technology (SAAS)
• Rapidly growing global company with international client base around the world
• International team: Bulgaria, Ireland, Spain,
• Flexible work environment - Hybrid, and remote - (dependent on position)
• Excellent salary
• Reduced summer hours
• Additional health insurance with UNIQA
• A co-financed Multisport card
• Company, team building events and awards
• Monthly meal vouchers
• Extra days leave to celebrate you on your birthday
• 5 days allocated to Grow – Learning and development days

Applicants must have the permanent right to live and work in Ireland