Senior SRE – Financial Services – Dublin 2 (WFH/onsite hybrid)

IT Search; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Search seeks a Senior SRE to lead reliability for a global financial services client from Dublin, managing cloud and on‑prem environments. You will drive incident leadership, delivery capacity, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams across EMEA.

The role emphasizes governance, observability, IaC, and CI/CD, with strong mentorship and clear communication to teams. Eligible candidates must be able to work in the EU and lead senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SRE leadership experience.
• Deep knowledge in storage, compute, networking, IaC and CI/CD.
• Financial services or regulated environments; DORA certifications of interest.
• Exceptional communication, reporting and mentoring skills.
• Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Cloud certifications are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE processes with Senior Management across EMEA from the Dublin City office (cloud and on prem).
• Take responsibility for reliability, releases and related stability.
• Manage observability capability, IaC, CI/CD to automate processes.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Incident management

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure

Cloud

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Storage

Compute

Networking

Job description

Senior SRE – Financial Services – Dublin 2 (WFH/onsite hybrid)

Our client is a global Financial Institution, with its Dublin base managing acting as European hub for various subsidiaries. They have engaged us to speak to SREs with experience of setting up greenfield sites within a larger organisation.

Initially this role is work across multiple teams and internal stakeholders to set up delivery capacity, bringing technical leadership across incident management as well as reliability

The role:

• Work with Senior Management team across EMEA to set up and lead SRE processes from the Dublin City office, taking a lead role within this team (cloud and on prem)
• Take responsibility for reliability, releases and related stability
• Manage observability capability, IaC, CI/CD to automate appropriate processes

Requirements:

• 10+ years of SRE Leadership, including setting up this function within ideally a multinational
• Deep technical knowledge within storage, compute, networking, IaC and CI/CD
• Financial Services background a strong benefit, or another heavily regulated environment (certifications in DORA for instance will be of interest)
• Exceptional communication skills, reporting, mentoring colleagues, bringing clear instructions to teams with the expectation of delivery
• Certifications such as Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Cloud etc will be required

This is a key senior role for our client leading to a significant achievement in the short term and room for further growth and promotion in the future.

Please note we can only accept applications from candidates eligible to work in the EU.