Site Reliability Engineer

Harvey Nash; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer II to join the Business Operations team in Dublin on an initial 12-month contract, with potential for extension. The role focuses on cloud infrastructure, observability, automation and operational resilience to help teams build and operate reliable, scalable technology.

As an SRE, you’ll collaborate with development and operations to embed reliability principles across the software lifecycle, combining hands‑on engineering with

Qualifications

• The candidate will have practical Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering or Production Operations experience.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, monitoring and automation.
• Experience with incident management and blameless post-mortems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support high-availability systems and production environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve performance and reliability.
• Drive automation to reduce manual tasks and improve efficiency.
• Support incident, problem and change management activities.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and contribute to post-mortems.
• Develop observability through monitoring and alerting improvements.
• Assist capacity planning and resilience initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering to promote production readiness.
• Document processes and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

AWS

ITSM/ITIL

Observability

SRE/DevOps

Python

Bash

Go

CI/CD

Containers

Orchestration

Cloud automation

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer - 12 Month Contract

Model: Hybrid (2 days on site weekly)

Our client is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer II to join their Business Operations team in Dublin on an initial 12-month contract, with potential for extension.

This is an excellent opportunity for an SRE professional who enjoys working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, observability, automation and operational resilience, helping teams build and operate reliable, scalable technology.

The Role

As an SRE, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability and performance of critical applications and services.

You’ll act as a production-readiness partner, working closely with development and operations teams to embed reliability principles throughout the software lifecycle. The role combines hands‑on technical work with proactive problem solving, automation and continuous improvement.

What you’ll be doing

• Support the implementation and maintenance of high-availability systems


• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production environments


• Drive automation and scripting to reduce manual operational tasks


• Support incident, problem and change management activities


• Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis and contribute to blameless post-mortems


• Develop and improve observability, monitoring and alerting


• Contribute to capacity planning, performance optimisation and resilience initiatives


• Support cloud infrastructure and operational reliability


• Help establish and maintain operational standards and best practices


• Collaborate with engineering teams to promote developer ownership and production readiness


• Document processes and share knowledge across the team

We're particularly interested in candidates with experience across:

• Splunk and/or Dynatrace


• ITSM / ITIL


• Monitoring, logging and observability


• Python, Bash, Go or similar scripting/programming languages


• CI/CD, DevOps and automation


• Containers and orchestration


• High availability, scalability and disaster recovery

What we're looking for

The ideal candidate will have a practical background in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering or Production Operations, together with a strong understanding of operational resilience.

The three key areas we're particularly interested in are:

1. Cloud knowledge – particularly AWS

2. IT Service Management – incident, problem and change management

3. Monitoring & observability – particularly Splunk and/or Dynatrace

You’ll need to be comfortable working independently, troubleshooting production issues and collaborating with technical stakeholders across the organisation.

If you’re an SRE who enjoys solving complex problems, automating repetitive work and making systems more reliable, we’d be keen to hear from you.