Senior Cloud/Test Automation Engineer

Job Title:	Senior Cloud/Test Automation Engineer
Job ID:	59637815
Job published:	Wednesday April 8, 2026
Job Type:	Permanent
Employment type:	Full-time
Industry:	IT
Expertise:	Infrastructure Security & Systems Software Development
Salary Type:	annual
Location:	Ireland

Job Description

GemPool is an IT recruitment agency in Dublin, Ireland. Our client is a clinical research technology and review-services company that helps sponsors, CROs, research sites, and institutions run trials more efficiently, stay compliant, and work together in a more connected way. It combines software, operational insights, and ethics/review expertise to help accelerate clinical trials and improve research outcomes.

Join a mission-led healthtech business building technology and oversight solutions that help sponsors, CROs and research sites work together more efficiently, accelerate clinical trials, and improve outcomes for patients.

This is a hands-on senior role for someone who enjoys real ownership. You’ll help design, build and optimise scalable automation frameworks, strengthen CI/CD pipelines, lead release validation, and improve overall automation health across complex product releases.

You’ll work across Jenkins, Python, Robot Framework, Selenium, SQL, Linux and AWS, partnering closely with Engineering, QA, DevOps and Database teams to troubleshoot issues, improve reliability, and increase confidence in every release. There is also scope to support modernisation work, including pipeline improvements and migration initiatives.

We are looking for someone with solid automation test experience who enjoys solving pipeline problems, improving framework performance, and making a visible impact in a collaborative environment. This is a remote position within Ireland.

For more information, reach out to cathal.mcaliskey@gempool.ie