What is the opportunity?

The DevOps Center of Excellence (DevOps COE) is tasked with delivering automated processes and tooling to streamline how BOI delivers software. We have already deployed key systems to facilitate this, and lead by example by ensuring our tools and services are delivered using fully automated pipelines!

In this Role, you will

• Work with the DevOps COE to deliver key technical solutions to the bank in a way that is easily consumable by our development teams.
• Have an excellent understanding of the environments currently in use the development teams and provide support to them in their day to day usage
• You understand Infrastructure as Code principles (IaC) and are comfortable developing code to deliver working products (environment + applications + configuration) for the bank
• Use this understanding to continually improve our Infrastructure as Code components (Terraform / Ansible) and ensure thorough testing
• Work closely with Security and IT Architects to ensure all solutions are compliant to bank policy and are accurately introduced to the bank
• Understand & Influence how development teams are building and testing their software. Take best in practice guidelines and help them move to newer solutions that the DCOE is delivering

Essential Skills & Experience

• A proven track record in either a software development role where you have some exposure to releasing applications into a production environment or an operational facing role where you've had to deploy and support production type workloads
• Experience using the Atlassian tool stack - Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket

What will make you stand out?

If you've done software development, we would look for:

• Good skills in one of the main scripting languages such as python, perl, ruby and their test frameworks
• Strong development background in languages such as Java, Golang, C, C# and a good understanding of their test frameworks
• You have developed applications that have involved the delivery and consumption of API's
• Exposure to one or more cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and you're comfortable with how to provision infrastructure using the portal UI.
• You're aware of tools like Ansible / Puppet / Chef and what they do, and it would be phenomenal if you've had some hands on experience.
• You've seen Terraform code and would be comfortable in how it is implemented and debugged
• Exposure to Docker and orchestration environments such as Kubernetes / OpenShift

If you've been more involved in the operational side of things, we like to see something like the following:

• In depth experience of one or more of the cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and can automate infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates etc. Certifications are nice, but hands on experience preferable.
• A detailed understanding of how infrastructure is run and provisioned in virtualized environments such as VMWare
• You've used configuration management tools like Ansible / Puppet / Chef.
• In depth experience of configuration management orchestration tools such as Ansible Tower / Chef Server
• Detailed understanding of SSL & Cryptography and solutions to automation and management of SSL Certificates for applications.
• An appreciation for a test first software development approach, and a desire to ensure there're no surprises at deployment time

Essential Qualifications

BSc or MSc in an Engineering based field, or the equivalent experience.

More about the team

Our IT Engineering & Delivery teams are responsible for designing, building, testing and delivering the technology that powers Bank of Ireland. Our teams, based out of Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, and Bristol, UK enable the bank's digital transformation by modernising platforms, enhancing system resilience and accelerating software delivery. Our focus spans cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, cybersecurity and engineering standard processes - ensuring secure, scalable and high-performing solutions. We are fully embracing new ways-of-working such as Scaled Agile and from core banking systems to innovative customer-facing applications, we deliver technology that drives efficiency, compliance and offers the best customer-experience.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid Maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!