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DevOps Engineer

Ireland

The Opportunity

 

Brightflag is growing. As a market leader, with a product that customers truly love, we’re scaling quickly. To continue to build and evolve our AI-first product we’re growing our Product & Engineering team across multiple disciplines. We have an exceptional team and a high bar. We challenge ourselves with ambitious goals, best practice standards and a drive for continuous improvement. If you want to grow, get better and accelerate your career in Engineering, Brightflag is the place for you.

As a DevOps Engineer at Brightflag, you will play a vital role in shaping and maintaining our infrastructure and ensuring the smooth delivery of our cutting-edge legal technology solutions. You will support the production infrastructure deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting for our AI-powered platforms.

 

What You Will Be Doing

  • Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and systems necessary for the development, testing, and deployment of Brightflag's software applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, and product managers, to define infrastructure requirements, implement solutions, and ensure smooth operations.
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment scripts, and configuration management systems to streamline software releases and updates.
  • Implement and maintain monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify and resolve system issues, bottlenecks, and performance optimizations.
  • Continuously improve the scalability, reliability, and security of our infrastructure by leveraging best practices and implementing appropriate tools and technologies.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and practices related to DevOps and cloud infrastructure management, and apply that knowledge to improve our systems and processes.
  • Collaborate with the security team to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response.
  • Document system configurations, processes, and troubleshooting procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintain a robust knowledge base.

Skills & Experience

To be successful in the role, you need:

  • 3-4 years experience as a DevOps Engineer
  • Competent programming skills of applicable languages (Java, C#) and scripting (python, sh/bash etc)
  • Good knowledge of Linux operating system, e.g. common terminal commands
  • Solid knowledge of CI/CD principles and implementation ecosystems (AWS Codebuild, Bitbucket pipelines, GitHub Actions), including experience with build tools (i.e. maven, make, npm, etc.)
  • Understanding of fundamental cloud (AWS) infrastructure and principles, including clustering and scaling strategies.
  • Familiar with TCP/IP based networking and supporting internet systems (DNS etc), and common protocols such as HTTP
  • Good knowledge of applicable Web application technologies (Java Application servers or .net deployment frameworks, databases, queues and caching)
  • Strong analytical problem solving skills. Good communication and collaboration skills
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle and company’s compliance processes (ISO27001 & Soc2)

Life @ Brightflag

We’re growing fast and so is the experience we can offer you:

  • A huge opportunity to make a real impact, to shape what we do and where we are going.
  • The exposure and challenge you need to learn, grow and progress your career in a high growth environment.
  • Complex technical and business problems to solve and the trust and autonomy you need to go and solve them.
  • A sound, helpful team, in a friendly, values-driven and inclusive environment.
  • Competitive salary. 
  • 25 days of holidays.
  • Employer pension scheme.
  • Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance and long term illness/income protection.
  • Fully flexible work location and work patterns so you can balance life at home with life at work - come to the office, work at home… or enjoy a blend of both at your discretion.  
  • The Tax-Saver or Cycle-to-Work Scheme.  

We are a diverse and inclusive bunch of people. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who make every day count and strive for constant improvement. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. 

Location & Eligibility

This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland. Whether that be in the office (as public health guidelines allow), remote from anywhere in Ireland, or a mix of office/remote work in Ireland, you choose what works best for your lifestyle. 

 

Your time is valuable. To help with your application, we advise that regrettably we cannot offer work permit sponsorship/ self sponsorship for this role. 

 

About Brightflag

Hi, we’re Brightflag, the AI-powered, enterprise legal management platform that helps corporate legal departments operate with greater clarity, efficiency, and control.

Powered by our patented AI, which was developed with over 100,000 hours of legal and engineering expertise, and supported by our best-in-class Customer Success teams, Brightflag enables in-house legal teams to streamline operations, manage matters and spend, and collaborate more effectively with outside counsel.

Today, Brightflag is trusted by leading global organizations and forms part of the Legal & Regulatory division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services. You can learn more about Brightflag here.

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