Senior Site Reliability Engineer – 12-Month Contract

Vantage; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 171,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive daily rate

Hybrid in Dublin

Contract extension potential

AI/data platform exposure

Global teams collaboration

Job summary

Vantage Resources in Dublin is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a 12-month hybrid contract to support enterprise-scale applications and AI/data platforms.

You will collaborate across global teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, improve reliability, and drive efficiency using Splunk and Dynatrace. The role offers dynamic opportunities within Mastercard's AI and data transformation program.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong experience with Splunk and Dynatrace for monitoring, observability, and production support.
• Scripting experience with Unix/Shell and Python, plus SQL knowledge.
• Hands-on CI/CD tooling experience (Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory and/or Chef).
• Experience with AI, machine learning, data platforms, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge of DevOps and SRE principles, reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance production applications, services, and platforms in a large-scale enterprise.
• Collaborate across development, operations, and product teams to improve reliability and automation.
• Monitor service availability, latency, performance, and overall system health.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, including deployment validation and gating.
• Use automation to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency; troubleshoot complex issues.
• Participate in incident response and blameless post-mortems; drive improvements.

Skills

Splunk

Dynatrace

Unix/Shell

Python

SQL

CI/CD tooling

Git/Bitbucket

Jenkins

Maven

Artifactory

Chef

AI platforms

Apache NiFi

XLR

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Apache NiFi

XLR

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – 12-Month Contract, Dublin (Hybrid)

What’s involved:

• Support and enhance production applications, services, and platforms within a large-scale enterprise environment
• Work across development, operations, and product teams to improve reliability, automation, and operational standards
• Monitor and maintain service availability, latency, performance, and overall system health
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, including deployment validation and operational gating
• Use automation and scripting to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the wider technology stack and drive improvements to mean time to recovery
• Support services through design, capacity planning, launch reviews, deployment, and ongoing production support
• Analyse ITSM activities and identify operational gaps, resiliency concerns, and opportunities for improvement
• Participate in incident response and blameless post-mortems
• Work with global teams across multiple geographies and time zones
• Contribute to an AI-focused programme supporting the development and deployment of enterprise AI and data platforms

What you need:

• 3+ years' experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or a similar role
• Strong experience with Splunk and Dynatrace for monitoring, observability, and production support
• Strong scripting experience with Unix/Shell and Python, alongside SQL
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling, particularly Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory and/or Chef
• Experience supporting and deploying AI, machine learning, data platforms, or large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with automation, pipeline management, software design, and production troubleshooting
• Experience with technologies such as Apache NiFi, XLR, or similar enterprise tooling would be advantageous
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles, including reliability, monitoring, incident management, automation, and continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across development, operations, product, and business teams
• Fintech or financial services experience would be highly advantageous
• Degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience

What’s on offer:

• Competitive daily rate up to €806.58
• Hybrid working in Dublin, with 3 days per week in the office
• 12-month initial contract with potential for extension and permanent opportunity
• Opportunity to work with Mastercard on a major AI, data and technology transformation programme
• Exposure to enterprise-scale AI platforms, DevOps automation, SRE practices and global technology teams

Vantage Resources is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for engagement and/or employment. An inclusive and diverse workforce is an essential part of our culture and the service we provide to our customers.