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We are your single end to end partner for consultancy, design implementation, optimization and support for all applications in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Manufacturing stack.\nCognizant is seeking a DevOps Lead Engineer to join a greenfield MES rollout at a biotech manufacturing site in Limerick, Ireland.\nWe're looking for someone with a strong track record as a Lead or Senior DevOps Engineer, comfortable pushing configuration changes through dev, test, and live production environments, with solid grounding in version control for MES configuration, CI/CD pipeline design, and automated testing support.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild, implement, and refine CI/CD pipelines for consistent, dependable deployments across dev, test, and production\nTake ownership of the DevOps toolchain and environment lifecycle: source control, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, release management, monitoring, and observability\nProvision and manage secure, resilient, scalable infrastructure underpinning MES platforms, keeping availability and performance high\nManage MES platforms (Emerson Syncade experience preferred) - 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