Site Reliability Engineer - Data Services

iManage

Belfast

Hybrid

GBP 50,000 - 70,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading salary
Annual performance-based bonus
Enhanced parental leave
Flexible time off policy
Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A leading SaaS company in Belfast seeks a Site Reliability Engineer specialized in data services. This role emphasizes automation, reliability, and collaboration across teams to enhance the core data services. Ideal candidates have experience with MariaDB, MaxScale, and Elasticsearch in cloud environments. The company offers a dynamic workplace committed to innovation and collaboration, providing a competitive salary and robust benefits package.

Qualifications

  • Experience operating distributed data systems.
  • Comfortable writing design documents and postmortems.
  • Passionate about collaboration with other teams.

Responsibilities

  • Eliminate TOIL through automation.
  • Create a resilient, secure cloud-native platform.
  • Scale data clusters in a Kubernetes environment.
  • Lead incident management efforts effectively.

Skills

Automation and software development
Working collaboratively
Data systems support
SRE concepts advocacy
Public cloud environment knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field

Tools

MariaDB
MaxScale
Elasticsearch
Linux Server stacks
HashiCorp Terraform
Docker

Job description

SRE is part of a global organization that leverages the latest technology to communicate with our colleagues across the globe. We organize ourselves into distributed teams – SRE teams are anchored to iManage offices across the globe. Tuesdays and Thursdays are dedicated to in‑office collaboration, rapid innovation, and developing a sense of belonging at iManage. Mondays and Fridays are reserved for (remote‑friendly) focus time to get things done. Have the best of both work styles in a workplace that is intentional about belonging, collaboration, and accomplishment.

Being a Site Reliability Engineer – Data Services at iManage Means

You are an engineer, a builder, and a systems thinker. You ensure data durability, optimize query performance, and manage stateful storage upgrades. You combine technical depth with empathy, working closely with customers who hold the highest expectations for the stewardship of the world’s most sensitive data.

You elevate the people around you—acting as a subject matter expert, a mentor, and an agent of change. You focus on contributing factors rather than single root causes, value code over documentation and documentation over process, and continuously seek ways to reduce toil.

You participate in architectural and design discussions, helping shape a scalable, resilient platform that supports both our customers and our organization. You collaborate across teams to drive unified, standards‑based decisions that strengthen reliability. You also take part in on‑call rotations and provide expertise in observability, change management, and system scalability.

As iManage experiences rapid growth in its flagship cloud product, we’re looking for engineers who bring a beginner’s mindset, embrace complexity, and care deeply about resilience and sustainability in a cloud‑native world. This role includes a strong focus on the reliability and evolution of our core data services, including MariaDB, MaxScale, and Elasticsearch. If you write code, think in systems, automate relentlessly, and are passionate about reliability and scale, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities
  • Eliminating TOIL through automation and software development.
  • Partnering productively and cross‑functionally with application teams and other internal stakeholders.
  • Creating a modern, cloud‑native platform that is resilient, cost effective, and secure by default.
  • Scaling and tuning high‑availability data clusters (MariaDB, MaxScale, Elasticsearch) in a Kubernetes environment.
  • Maintaining the freshness and utility of our platform services.
  • Improving the security posture of our products.
  • Writing / designing automation, orchestration, observability, and disaster readiness into our products.
  • Coordinating and participating in production support and on‑call rotations.
  • Leading incident management efforts and post‑incident retrospectives.
  • Comfortability writing design documents / postmortems and refactoring application code when needed.
  • Experience operating or supporting distributed data systems (e.g., relational databases, search clusters, or sharded storage systems).
  • Developed automation to reduce the operational burden of a product or developed software‑as‑a‑service for internal customers.
  • Ability to advocate for SRE concepts such as Google’s SRE concepts (e.g., I know the differences between an SLO and an SLA and can effectively introduce them to an organization).
  • Experience working in a public cloud and/or hosted datacenter environment (Azure and AKS strongly preferred).
  • A passion for working collaboratively with other teams.
Qualifications
  • Comfortability writing design documents / postmortems and refactoring application code when needed.
  • Experience operating or supporting distributed data systems (e.g., relational databases, search clusters, or sharded storage systems).
  • Developed automation to reduce the operational burden of a product or developed software‑as‑a‑service for internal customers.
  • Ability to advocate for SRE concepts such as Google’s SRE concepts (e.g., I know the differences between an SLO and an SLA and can effectively introduce them to an organization).
  • Experience working in a public cloud and/or hosted datacenter environment (Azure and AKS strongly preferred).
  • A passion for working collaboratively with other teams.
Bonus Points If I Have
  • Hands on experience with MariaDB, MaxScale, or Elasticsearch in production environments.
  • Familiarity with data store observability, query performance tuning, or capacity planning.
  • Hands on experience with Linux Server stacks (Ubuntu/Debian distributions preferred).
  • Knowledge of cloud provisioning platforms (HashiCorp Terraform preferred).
  • Exposure to at least one configuration management platform (Chef preferred).
  • Experience with containerization/clustering technologies (Docker preferred).
  • Comfortability with observability and alerting tools (Prometheus/Grafana or ELK/EFK preferred).
  • Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and ability to describe the pros/cons associated with different rollout strategies.
  • A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Engineering or a related field.
  • Demonstrable proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Golang).
  • Familiarity with at least one scripting language (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby).

Don't meet every qualification listed above? Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet all qualifications. At iManage, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment, and encourage everyone to show up as their full authentic selves. We welcome those that come with a growth mindset and a hunger for learning; so, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification we encourage you to apply anyways!

Career Path
  • Join a rapidly evolving, industry‑leading SaaS company on an exciting journey of growth and scalability!
  • Take on meaningful, high‑impact challenges by leveraging cutting‑edge technologies and best‑in‑class protocols to drive innovation.
  • Own my career path with our internal development framework. Ask us more about this!
  • Expand my skill set and earn certifications with unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning courses and interactive Microsoft courses & training.
  • Be part of a supportive and experienced team within a dynamic, inclusive, and encouraging culture.
  • Enjoy flexible work hours that empower me to balance personal time with professional commitments.
  • Collaborate in a modern, open‑plan workspace featuring a gaming area, free snacks and drinks, and regular social events.
Benefits
  • Creating an inclusive environment where you’re encouraged to help shape the culture by bringing your unique perspective, not just by fitting in.
  • Providing a market‑leading salary determined through a fair and consistent process, equitable for all our employees, and regularly reviewed against industry benchmarks.
  • Rewarding me with an annual performance‑based bonus.
  • Providing enhanced parental leave (20 weeks for primary and 10 weeks for secondary caregiver at 100% pay)
  • Matching my pension contribution (up to 6%)
  • Offering BUPA private medical insurance & a Simplyhealth cash plan to assist with the everyday costs.
  • Providing Group life cover, including life insurance, income protection, and critical illness protection.
  • Encouraging me to make use of our top‑tier flexible time off policy, which includes 25 days of annual leave and the flexibility to take further additional time off as needed
  • Having multiple company wellness days each year to prioritize mental health and well‑being.
  • Providing access to RethinkCare, a global behavioral health platform that enhances personal well‑being, strengthens professional resilience, and empowers parental success through expert‑led training and resources.

iManage provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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About iManage

At iManage, we are dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™. Our intelligent, cloud‑enabled, and secure platform is trusted by 4,100+ customers and 430,000 users worldwide, managing over 11 billion documents and 11 petabytes of data. We empower professionals across 65+ countries to unlock the full potential of their business content and communications.

We are continuously innovating to solve the most complex professional challenges and enable better business outcomes; Our work is not always easy but it is ambitious and rewarding.

So we’re looking for people who embracechallenges. People who thrive on solving problems, pushing boundaries, and collaborating with the industry’s best and brightest. That’s the iManage way. It’s how we turn the impossible into reality, empower our employees to grow, unlock their potential, and create a meaningful impact on everything we do.

Whoever you are, whatever you do, however you work. Make it mean something at iManage.

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