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Éire / Ireland
Hybrid
Key Responsibilities:
Lead DevOps, Platform Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, and API/Integration squads supporting the MDX portfolio.
Manage and develop engineers and technical leads, fostering a high-performance engineering culture focused on accountability, automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Transform DevOps and CI/CD practices across teams, including GitHub platform governance, pipeline standardisation, deployment automation, build quality, developer enablement, and cloud-native delivery practices.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, security scanning, quality gates, deployment automation, and release-ready engineering practices.
Establish and maintain standards for application packaging, build management, version control, deployment automation, feature flags, configuration management, and environment promotion.
Ensure development, QA, staging, performance, and production-support environments remain stable, secure, available, and fit for purpose.
Lead reliability, resiliency, scalability, and performance engineering initiatives across applications, APIs, and platform services.
Drive implementation of observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, operational dashboards, and performance telemetry.
Partner with operational/SRE vendors to define and manage the reliability operating model, including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, escalation paths, runbooks, problem management, operational readiness, and continuous reliability improvement.
Partner with Architecture and Development teams to proactively address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, operational risks, and platform scalability challenges.
Manage on-call and production incidents, support root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions following incidents.
Lead a dedicated API & Integration Squad responsible for secure API development, integration with clinical systems, EHR connectivity, FHIR enablement, healthcare interoperability, and strategic integration services.
Establish engineering standards for API design, API security, integration patterns, lifecycle management, testing, observability, FHIR readiness, and operational support.
Manage day-to-day operational relationships with engineering vendors and partners, ensuring service quality, delivery performance, reliability outcomes, and continuous improvement.
Partner with Release Management to ensure CI/CD tooling, packaging processes, environment readiness, automation, and deployment practices support predictable, lower-risk releases.
Drive engineering productivity improvements through automation, AI-assisted engineering practices, modern tooling, and platform standardisation.
Build AI-enabled fluency across engineering teams, including practical use of AI-assisted development, delivery planning, documentation, test generation, operational insight, and productivity improvement.
Establish measurable adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, ensuring AI use improves engineering flow, quality, automation, and delivery outcomes.
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Integration Engineering, or related technical disciplines.
4+ years of people leadership experience managing engineering teams.
Proven experience leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, Reliability Engineering, Integration Engineering, or Cloud Engineering teams.
Experience working with vendors, managed service providers, offshore development teams, and operational partners.
Experience working with SRE or managed operations partners to improve production health, reduce recurring incidents, strengthen observability, and manage reliability outcomes against agreed service levels.
Strong experience transforming DevOps and CI/CD practices using GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, automated pipelines, deployment automation, source control governance, and developer platforms.
Experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible and cloud-native engineering practices.
Experience implementing reliability engineering, observability, monitoring, incident management, problem management, and performance engineering practices.
Experience delivering enterprise APIs, integrations, microservices, clinical system integrations, EHR connectivity, and interoperability solutions.
Knowledge of API gateways, authentication, authorisation, RESTful services, and integration patterns.
Experience supporting highly available SaaS, healthcare, or mission-critical platforms.
Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and patterns, including FHIR, HL7, clinical workflow integration, and EHR integration, is preferred.
Experience working in Agile and SAFe delivery environments.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence, delivery commitments, operational stability, reliability outcomes, and team development.
AI-enabled and fluent, with a proven track record using AI to improve engineering productivity, delivery planning, automation, test generation, documentation, operational insight, and team effectiveness.
Hands-on familiarity with AI engineering tools, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted SDLC practices, with the judgement to apply them safely and effectively in enterprise software delivery.
Success Measures:
Improved platform reliability, performance, and operational stability.
Clear SLIs/SLOs, incident trends, and operational health metrics used to manage reliability outcomes.
Improved DevOps maturity, CI/CD automation, pipeline quality, and engineering productivity.
Reduced deployment failures and recurring production incidents.
Improved application and API performance, scalability, and resiliency.
Successful delivery of API, clinical systems integration, EHR connectivity, and FHIR enablement commitments.
High-performing and engaged engineering teams.
Strong vendor performance and operational partnership effectiveness.
Improved SRE/operations partner performance, escalation effectiveness, runbook quality, and problem-management follow-through.
Increased adoption of platform engineering standards, automation, AI-enabled engineering practices, and developer self-service capabilities.
Compensation
The salary range provided in this job posting is intended to reflect the general market value for the position. The actual salary offered may vary based on factors such as the candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and the specific requirements of the role. This range may also be subject to change as market conditions evolve. We encourage open communication throughout the interview process to discuss compensation expectations. For base-salary + commission sales roles, the range represents On-Target Earnings.
Min – Max :
€101,916.44 - €152,874.66 (EUR)
Benefits
The benefits described represent the current offerings at our organization, however, benefits are subject to change and may vary by location and employment status. We strive to provide a comprehensive benefits package that supports our employees’ health, wellness, and financial goals. Please note that benefits may be discussed in more detail during the hiring process.
Vacation to help you rest, recharge, and connect with loved ones
Paid leave benefits
Health plan cover through Irish Life Health
Employer and employee pension contributions
Bike2work program/benefits
Tuition reimbursement, life insurance, EAP – and more!
It is the policy of Merative to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, HIV status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Merative will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
