Staff Engineer, DevOps
LearnUpon
| Company | LearnUpon |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Dublin |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Work Mode: Hybrid 1+ day per week in our Dublin office
Department: Engineering
About the Company
LearnUpon partners with over 1,600 organisations globally to unlock the potential of employees, customers & members through learning that’s easy, scalable and focused on results.
Read more about life at LearnUpon here .
About the Team
Our Engineering team builds and delivers our best-in-class, world-scale Learning Management System (LMS). We focus on architectural excellence, reliability, and technical innovation across multiple teams and services. Operating with high ownership and deep technical expertise, we champion engineering best practices, seamless automation, and a strong culture of collaborative mentorship to support LearnUpon's global product growth.
About the Opportunity
As a Staff Engineer, DevOps, you'll be a key technical leader and role model within LearnUpon. You'll shape the DevOps architecture of our best-in-class LMS, influence our technical strategy, and elevate the skills of our entire engineering organization. Your impact will extend beyond our product, contributing to our mission of building robust, lovable learning products that help customers achieve results.
In addition, you’ll be responsible for:
Architecture & Strategy: Drive technical innovation, shape our long-term technical roadmap, and establish scalable DevOps architecture across multiple platform services
Automation & CI/CD: Establish and scale robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, driving best practices across the engineering organization
Operational Excellence: Champion absolute standards for code quality, system design, scalability, and cloud production reliability
Mentorship & Leadership: Provide strategic technical guidance, acting as a prominent role model to uplevel the skills of our entire engineering and senior technical talent pool
Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Engineering and cross-functional leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with business goals
Skills & Experience
Must-Haves
Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, particularly within AWS environments, with an advanced understanding of production scalability, security, and reliability
Strong production experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts as the foundational layer for container platform orchestration
Deep proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform or Ansible, focusing on modular and reusable architecture patterns
Extensive background designing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and engineering automated internal tooling using Bash, Python, or Go
Demonstrated success leading large-scale technical initiatives that span across multiple engineering squads and services
Track record of mentoring, coaching, and elevating senior-level technical talent
Experience using AI tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiencies
Nice-to-Haves
Familiarity with GitOps deployment workflows using tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD
Prior experience optimizing massive multi-tenant platform infrastructure within a high-growth B2B SaaS architecture
*If you don’t tick every box but believe this role is a mutually good fit, please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you.
Why choose LearnUpon?
From comprehensive rewards and generous time off to meaningful investment in your growth and development, LearnUpon gives you t
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