About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
We are seeking a Senior GitHub Engineer to play a key role within our customer's Software Engineering leadership team. This is a hands-on senior position with strong influence across the SDLC, focused on embedding modern engineering best practices and implementing a shift-left approach to quality, security and governance. You will act as a subject matter expert for GitHub and associated tooling, partnering closely with engineering leads, platform teams and security to improve developer experience, code quality and delivery outcomes at scale.
This position follows a hybrid work model, requiring candidates to work from our client's London (Heathrow) office twice per week.
Required skills & qualifications:
- Solid, demonstrable experience as a Senior Engineer with deep expertise in GitHub (repositories, actions, workflows, governance)
- Proven experience implementing modern SDLC practices, including CI/CD and shift-left approaches
- Robust knowledge of modern coding practices, software quality standards and secure development principles
- Hands-on experience with:
- SonarQube (code quality, technical debt, coverage)
- Snyk (dependency and security scanning)
- Atlassian tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
- Features on GitHub like Actions, permissions, policies and automation
- Experience operating in a management or senior advisory capacity within engineering organisations
- Solid stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of GitHub-based workflows across the SDLC
- Drive the adoption of shift-left practices, embedding security, quality and compliance earlier in the development lifecycle
- Define and uphold modern coding standards, branching strategies and CI/CD best practices
- Integrate and optimise tooling such as SonarQube and Snyk to ensure continuous code quality and security scanning
- Work closely with Software Engineering management to shape engineering governance, standards and roadmap initiatives
- Partner with development teams to improve developer experience, productivity and automation
- Provide technical management, mentoring and guidance to engineers across teams
- Collaborate with security and platform teams to ensure secure-by-design engineering practices
- Monitor, report on and continuously improve engineering metrics related to code quality, security and delivery performance
Desirable skills & experience:
- Experience working in large-scale or enterprise engineering environments
- Background in platform engineering, DevOps or developer enablement
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.
If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
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- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
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