Senior Engineer, SRE

Jobtailor; Dublin; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Ireland is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps engineer to design scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure and drive reliability across mobile, web, and backend services.

You will mentor engineers, lead cross-functional projects, and advance observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog while shaping incident response and postmortems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading project-level technical work.
• Track record of building and maintaining high-scale, cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, observable infrastructure for multiple platforms.
• Drive adoption of configuration management, infrastructure refactoring, and testing frameworks.
• Partner with SRE, development, and product teams to improve service reliability, deployment safety, and incident response.
• Consult and contribute to reliability standards for new capabilities, customer-facing releases, and platform initiatives.
• Evolve and implement observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, automated alerting, and actionable SLO dashboards.
• Support and improve on-call practices.
• Manage blameless postmortems and guide root cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures.
• Mentor engineers and support a culture of extreme ownership and operational excellence.
• Support compliance and privacy-driven engineering initiatives, including data retention and safety certification tooling.

Skills

SRE Experience

Cloud Experience

Kubernetes Expertise

CI/CD Pipeline Management

Python/Go/Java Proficiency

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CI/CD Tools

SLO Dashboards

Job description

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, observable infrastructure for OnStar mobile, web, in-vehicle, backend, and integration services
• Drive adoption of configuration management, infrastructure refactoring, and testing frameworks
• Partner with SRE, development, and product teams to improve service reliability, deployment safety, and incident response
• Consult and contribute to reliability standards for new capabilities, customer-facing releases, and platform initiatives
• Evolve and implement observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, automated alerting, and actionable SLO dashboards
• Support and improve on-call practices
• Manage blameless postmortems and guide root cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures
• Mentor engineers and support a culture of extreme ownership and operational excellence
• Support compliance and privacy-driven engineering initiatives, including data retention and safety certification tooling

Requirements

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading project-level technical work
• Track record of building and maintaining high-scale, cloud-native systems
• Cloud experience, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java
• Strong code review and readability standards
• Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure projects, configuration strategy, or organizational tooling initiatives
• Familiarity with privacy engineering, data security, or compliance frameworks is a plus
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence, mentor, and lead across diverse technical teams
• Applicants may be required to complete role-related assessments and/or pre-employment screening

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure while driving adoption of configuration management and observability tools. Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead cross-functional projects in cloud-native environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• SRE Experience
• Cloud Experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Kubernetes Expertise
• CI/CD Pipeline Management
• Python, Go, or Java Proficiency

Hard Skills

• Infrastructure Design
• Configuration Management
• Observability Implementation
• Incident Response
• Root Cause Analysis
• Cloud-Native Systems
• Container Orchestration
• Code Review Standards
• Testing Frameworks
• Data Security Compliance

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Mentoring Ability
• Influencing Skills
• Leadership Across Teams
• Culture of Ownership

Industry Keywords

• Privacy Engineering
• Data Retention
• Safety Certification
• Operational Excellence

Tools & Technologies

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Datadog
• CI/CD Tools
• Automated Alerting
• SLO Dashboards