Senior Devops Engineer

Toast Toast · Enterprise · Ireland · Remote · R & D : Cloud Service Infra : Platform Infrastructure

This role is for a Senior DevOps Engineer at Toast, a company that provides technology solutions for restaurants. The Infrastructure Engineering team focuses on building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and tools on AWS to enable other teams to deliver products safely and efficiently. The engineer will be responsible for platform architecture, landing zones, network, and security infrastructure, working within a Scrum team to create infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tools. They will also mentor other developers on using IaC and DevOps practices. The role requires significant experience in DevOps/Infra engineering, cloud platforms (AWS), Terraform, Go/Python/Java/Kotlin, and managing large-scale infrastructure. Experience with AI tools is a nice-to-have.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work within a Scrum team to create, document and support various infrastructure as code modules.
  2. Create, document and support various tools and services used in order to support continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment of highly available infrastructure in various environments.
  3. Create tools to help our developers move their infrastructure from a monolithic repo to individual service repos for use with our IDP.
  4. Lead by example with code standards and design; help implement these across the scrum team’s products.
  5. Mentor and support developers within the organisation on using and extending of IaC tooling and support systems using DevOps methodologies.

Skills

Required

  • DevOps/Infra engineering
  • AWS
  • Terraform Providers
  • Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Go
  • Python
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • testing
  • quality
  • best practices
  • large-scale infrastructure management
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud Infrastructure at scale

Nice to have

  • AI tools such as Claude

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 6+ years of experience in a DevOps/Infra engineering role
  • Expertise with at least one public cloud computing offering such as AWS, GCP or Azure infrastructure SDKs
  • Solid experience with writing Terraform Providers
  • Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code framework internals & SDKs (Terraform providers, Ansible modules & plugins, etc)
  • Solid experience in Go, Python, Java or Kotlin with a strong understanding of testing, quality and best practices.
  • Experience maintaining large-scale infrastructure, including both production and nonproduction workloads.
  • Experience with the continuous integration, deployment, and delivery of Cloud Infrastructure at scale for technology teams of hundreds of developers.
  • Experience leading the build and scale of critical platform features.