Remote SRE Engineering Manager - Lead Reliability & Platform

Jobgether; Ireland; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Parental leave 16 weeks

Wellbeing support

Stock options

Home office budget

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager, SRE based in Ireland to lead a Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for building a highly reliable foundation for a globally distributed platform.

You will balance operational excellence with project delivery, mature SLOs, error budgets, and observability while partnering with security and senior leadership in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading an SRE, infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or similarly focused technical team.
• Strong hands‑on background in site reliability, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and AWS at meaningful scale.
• Hands‑on experience building, enabling, or scaling AI infrastructure and workloads.
• Strong understanding of observability, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with Docker, shell scripting, and production infrastructure operations.
• Proven ownership of reliability practices including incident response, on‑call operations, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Experience in regulated environments with infrastructure controls, compliance, and security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an SRE team, overseeing onboarding, feedback, performance, progression, and hiring.
• Set team direction and priorities aligned with company goals, balancing operations and project work.
• Represent the team to engineering and senior leadership, communicating priorities and risks clearly.
• Own SRE delivery goals, prioritization, and allocation of operational responsibilities.
• Design and maintain on‑call processes and strengthen incident response practices.
• Provide technical leadership across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS/TLS, CI infrastructure.
• Drive reliability practices including SLOs, error budgets, observability, and post‑incident reviews.
• Partner with Security on infrastructure threats, patches, controls, and audits.
• Manage vendor relationships with renewals and finance discussions with senior leadership.
• Stay hands‑on to review work, challenge architectures, and spot reliability issues early.
• Foster strong cross‑team relationships and early escalation of operational concerns.
• Continuously improve team health, collaboration, and retrospective practices.

Skills

SRE leadership

Kubernetes

AWS

Observability

SLOs

Incident response

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

DevOps

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager, SRE based in Ireland to lead a Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for building a highly reliable foundation for a globally distributed platform.

You will balance operational excellence with project delivery, mature SLOs, error budgets, and observability while partnering with security and senior leadership in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.