Site Reliability Engineer *** Great company benefits *** Remote working
Our client are keen to add to their growing engineering team across Ireland by adding a Site Reliability Engineer.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone interested in joining a fast-paced start-up, pioneering novel metrics, data products, and intelligence solutions, whilst offering insights into the economics, markets, usage, health, and other aspects of the FinTech space.
Key Responsibilities
● System Architecture and Design: Collaborate with software engineering teams to design scalable, highly available, and resilient systems. Drive architectural improvements to enhance system reliability and performance.
● Implement Infrastructure as Code to manage services and deployments in a multi-cloud, multi-project configuration.
● Automation and Tooling: Develop automation tools and scripts to streamline deployment, monitoring, and incident response processes. Implement and maintain infrastructure as code frameworks.
● Monitoring and Alerting: Configure and maintain monitoring systems to detect and mitigate potential issues proactively. Define alerting thresholds and response procedures to ensure timely incident resolution.
● Incident Management: Respond to and resolve critical incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures to minimize the likelihood of recurrence. Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support as needed.
● Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and propose optimizations to improve resource utilization and efficiency.
● Security and Compliance: Work closely with security teams to implement best practices for data protection, access control, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Conduct periodic security audits and vulnerability assessments.
● Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Document system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps. Share knowledge and best practices with team members to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Must Have:
● Proven experience in an independent contributor role working with cloud platforms: GCP, AWS, Azure, Infrastructure-as-Code tooling: Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD orchestration platforms: GitlabCI, ArgoCD, Github Actions or similar GitOps workflows.
● Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to independently troubleshoot complex issues.
● Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
● Strong Architectural & Security Mindset.
Should Have:
● Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems administration and networking concepts.
● Hands-on experience with configuring and running monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
● 5+ years experience of maintaining infrastructure-as-code on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Azure.
● Experience working in SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 certified companies.
Desirable:
● Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as BASH, Golang, Python and TypeScript.
● 2+ years hands-on experience operating highly available Kubernetes clusters.
● Experience being involved in incident management and resolution.
● Experience with AI development tools and related security considerations.
● Passion for the Blockchain Industry & Decentralised Systems.
● Experience with Blockchain Infrastructure, either in a personal or professional capacity.
If this role is of interest to you please apply now or contact Ciarán Bergin in Parker Stewart with any additional questions you may have.