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

IT Search; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Search is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a leading financial services client in Dublin. The role combines guidance across multiple teams to set up delivery capacity and establish reliability practices, with a hybrid work model (WFH/onsite) in Dublin 2.

You will lead SRE processes, manage releases and observability, and drive IaC and CI/CD adoption across cloud and on‑prem environments, reporting to senior management across EMEA.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SRE leadership experience, preferably in multinational settings.
• Deep technical knowledge of storage, compute, networking, IaC and CI/CD.
• Experience in financial services or regulated environments is highly beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE function setup across Dublin with cross-team collaboration.
• Own reliability, releases, and platform stability and performance.
• Oversee observability, IaC, and CI/CD implementations to automate processes.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Cloud architectures

On-prem architectures

Observability

IaC

CI/CD

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication & mentoring

Incident management

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Prometheus/Grafana

AWS/Azure

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.