Job Description – Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain event-driven architectures to support scalable and resilient applications. Manage and optimize PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) deployments, ensuring application performance and availability. Operate and administer Apache Kafka clusters, including monitoring, scaling, security, and troubleshooting. Develop and manage observability and monitoring solutions using Splunk, ensuring proactive issue detection and resolution. Collaborate with development teams to integrate SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, etc.). Automate operational tasks, CI/CD pipelines, and system monitoring to reduce manual interventions. Conduct incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortem reviews. Implement capacity planning, scaling strategies, and fault-tolerant solutions. Contribute to infrastructure as code (IaC) and cloud-native deployments.
Requirements
Required Skills & Qualifications
* Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and microservices.
* Hands-on experience with PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) – deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting.
* Expertise in Kafka – cluster management, topics, partitions, producers/consumers, schema registry, and stream processing.
* Experience with Splunk – logging, dashboards, alerting, and operational insights.
* Solid knowledge of Linux, networking, and system performance tuning.
* Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Shell, or similar).
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar).
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in distributed systems.
* Good understanding of SRE principles – monitoring, automation, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.
Nice-to-Have Skills
* Exposure to Kubernetes and container orchestration.
* Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
* Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
* Knowledge of other observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Education & Experience
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
* 3–6 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or related roles.
Job Opening ID
RRF_5910
Job Type
Permanent
Industry
IT Services
Date Opened
09/26/2025
City
Dublin 02
State/Province
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Zip/Postal Code
D18