DevOps Lead

Overview PM Group is looking for a DevOps Lead to join a pharmacetiocal client of ours in Limerick. Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and repeatable MES deployments across development, test, and production environments. Own the DevOps toolchain - source control, build automation, release management, environment provisioning, monitoring, and observability. Define and enforce branching strategies, code review processes, and release management standards appropriate to a regulated manufacturing environment. Work closely with MES vendors, system integrators, and internal teams to understand platform architecture and translate this into maintainable infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation. Lead environment management for MES platforms including Syncade, ensuring environments are correctly configured, version-controlled, and fit for purpose across all lifecycle stages. Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to provide operational visibility of MES platform health and performance. Drive shift-left quality practices - working with the testing team to embed automated testing into pipelines and ensuring quality gates are robust. Support computer system validation (CSV) activities, maintaining audit trails, deployment records, and change control documentation in compliance with GxP requirements. Manage infrastructure provisioning supporting MES workloads, ensuring security, resilience, and scalability. Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline, continuously improving deployment frequency, lead time, and recovery metrics (DORA). Act as a technical authority and escalation point for infrastructure and deployment issues across the MES programme. Qualifications Proven experience in a DevOps Lead or Senior DevOps Engineer role on complex enterprise software programmes. Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling - Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent. Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar) and configuration management practices. Experience managing environments for large-scale enterprise applications, including environment promotion strategies and configuration management. Proficiency in scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar) for automation and tooling. Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, release management, and change control in enterprise settings. Experience working in regulated industries (pharmaceutical, life sciences, food & beverage, or similar) with awareness of compliance and validation requirements. Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues under pressure.
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