Senior DevOps & Data Platform Engineer (Ireland / UK Time Zone)

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps and Data Platform Engineer to join our team and help take SenseStack to the next level. Technical skills are important, but our primary hiring criteria are communication, ownership, responsiveness, and the ability to deliver. Important: How We Hire We are not looking for someone who can simply talk about infrastructure. We are looking for someone who can: * Join a call today * Understand a problem quickly * Communicate clearly * Propose a solution * Implement a small task the same day * Document what was done * Work collaboratively with our team The successful candidate will complete a paid trial task before any long-term engagement. Location Requirements * Ireland, UK, or European time zones only * Must be available during Irish business hours * Strong spoken and written English required * Comfortable joining video calls and working closely with founders and engineers What You’ll Be Working On Infrastructure * Linux servers * Hetzner cloud infrastructure * Docker and Docker Compose * Server automation and configuration management * Security, backups, monitoring, and disaster recovery Observability & Monitoring * Grafana * Prometheus * Grafana Alloy * Node Exporter * cAdvisor * Alerting and operational dashboards Data Platform * InfluxDB * Time-series database management * Data retention policies * Data lifecycle management * Telemetry storage optimisation * Backup and recovery Data Pipelines * ETL / ELT pipelines * n8n automation workflows * API integrations * Data ingestion and processing * Operational reporting SenseStack SenseStack is building operational readiness infrastructure for saunas, plunges, and wellness environments. You’ll help us manage: * Sensor telemetry * IoT infrastructure * Device monitoring * Cloud infrastructure * Production observability * Data reliability Required Skills * Linux administration * Docker * Grafana * Prometheus * InfluxDB * ETL pipelines * API integrations * Git workflows Success Criteria The person we hire: * Responds quickly * Communicates clearly * Delivers what they commit to * Documents their work * Raises issues early * Takes ownership of outcomes * Wants to be part of a growing team Trial Task Before any ongoing engagement, candidates should be willing to: * Join a discovery call * Complete a small paid technical task * Deliver the task within the agreed timeframe * Explain their approach and decisions If you enjoy solving real infrastructure and data challenges and want to help build a fast-moving IoT startup, we’d like to hear from you.