Site Reliability Engineer – Engineering Productivity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Develop, deploy securely and incrementally, and maintain essential production systems

• Emphasize scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security

• Create automation to eliminate repetitive tasks and proactively monitor, respond to, and improve alerts

• Establish and maintain incident response runbooks

• Diagnose platform and infrastructure challenges

• Draft postmortem reports to avoid future incidents

• Organize and communicate maintenance schedules for production systems

• Collaborate with third-party vendor support when necessary

• Recognize infrastructure constraints alongside product development teams

• Design solutions to improve developer experience and workflow efficiency

• Research and implement best practices in infrastructure and platform design

• Analyze open-source system implementations to enhance triage and resolution

⛳️ Requirements

• A BSc in Computer Science or Engineering with 3 years of experience, an MS in Computer Science or Engineering with 3 years of experience, or equivalent practical experience

• Proficient in Go, Python, or shell scripting for developing medium-complexity automation workflows

• Familiarity with Linux or UNIX system administration and debugging

• Practical experience managing software systems at scale

• Knowledge of server provisioning, particularly in storage and networking

• Excellent problem-solving and software troubleshooting abilities

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code methodologies

• Experience with databases such as MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB (preferred)

• Familiarity with Docker and virtualization technologies like KVM, QEMU, or Kata Containers (preferred)

• Experience managing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, or Thanos (preferred)

• Experience managing Elasticsearch clusters (preferred)

• Experience with Artifactory and Docker registries (preferred)

• Experience managing CI/CD systems such as ArgoCD or Spinnaker (preferred)

• Familiarity with version control systems like Perforce or Gerrit (preferred)

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Ansible (preferred)

• Experience managing large Java applications (preferred)

• Experience with storage infrastructure such as NAS, SAN, or Ceph (preferred)

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely

• Emphasis on work-life balance

• Supportive and inclusive environment

• Commitment to diversity in the workplace