Senior Site Reliability Engineer

OpenText; Cork; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText in Cork is hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure. You will design, implement, and maintain systems with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, and CI/CD pipelines to deliver resilient services.

You will lead incident response, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and development teams, and explore AI-driven observability and automated remediation to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in SRE/DevOps or infra engineering.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise at scale.
• Proven CI/CD pipeline design using Octopus/Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions.
• Strong mentoring and cross-functional leadership.
• Experience presenting reliability strategies to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, scalability and performance of cloud infrastructure.
• Design, implement and maintain systems with IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Lead incident response and on-call rotations, root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with development and product teams for CI/CD integration.
• Explore AI-driven observability and automated remediation strategies.

Skills

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

SRE mindset

System reliability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

AWS

Octopus Deploy

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Opentext - The Information Company

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Come and join our Cloud Service team based in our Cork office with your commitment as a

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

YOUR IMPACT

You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with development and operations teams to design, implement, and maintain systems that are resilient and efficient.

What The Role Offers

• Design and maintain AWS-based infrastructure with a focus on security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Use Terraform and Terragrunt to provision and manage infrastructure as code across multiple environments.
• Monitor and optimize Windows and Linux-based systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance with operational standards.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless CI/CD integration and deployment of microservices.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of infrastructure and application performance issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for critical systems, ensuring rapid recovery and postmortem analysis.
• Explore and contribute to AI-driven observability, alerting, and self-healing strategies for cloud infrastructure and applications, including anomaly detection and automated remediation.

What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles supporting production‑grade systems.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working across development, product, and operations teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and influence architectural decisions.
• Experience presenting reliability strategies to leadership and driving cross‑functional initiatives.
• Exposure to AI/ML-based monitoring, anomaly detection, or automated remediation systems.
• Interest in contributing to internal AI adoption strategies for cloud operations.

One Last Thing

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [e-mail]. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.