Senior SRE: Cloud Reliability & Observability (Hybrid)

General Motors; Limerick; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors' OnStar SRE team in Dublin is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer to design scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure and drive cloud-native platforms at scale.

You will mentor engineers, own reliability standards, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve incident response, observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and to automate deployment and testing across services.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering with mentoring experience.
• Building and maintaining high-scale, cloud-native systems (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Expertise in container orchestration and deployment strategies using Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java with strong code readability.
• Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure projects and tooling initiatives.
• Ability to work under pressure and balance uptime vs cost trade-offs.
• Familiarity with privacy engineering or data security is a plus; strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, observable infrastructure supporting OnStar experiences and cloud platforms.
• Drive adoption of configuration management, infrastructure refactoring, and testing frameworks.
• Partner across SRE, development, and product teams to improve service reliability, deployment safety, and incident response.
• Provide consultation on reliability standards for new capabilities and platform initiatives.
• Evolve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, with automated alerting and SLO dashboards.
• Support on-call practices, manage postmortems, and guide root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of extreme ownership and operational excellence.
• Support privacy/compliance initiatives across connected services.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

Systems engineering

Cloud-native architectures

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Go/Java

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

General Motors' OnStar SRE team in Dublin is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer to design scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure and drive cloud-native platforms at scale.

You will mentor engineers, own reliability standards, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve incident response, observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and to automate deployment and testing across services.