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PM Group is looking for a DevOps Lead to join a pharmacetiocal client of ours in Limerick.
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- 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.
- 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.
