Site Reliability Engineer

Solas IT Recruitment; Galway; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 110.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Solas IT Recruitment is looking for an experienced AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our infrastructure and cloud operations team in a hybrid role for Connacht. The ideal candidate will ensure reliability, scalability, and security of AWS-based platforms and Kubernetes environments.

You will work heavily with AWS services, Terraform and Ansible for IaC, and collaborate with DevOps to optimise CI/CD pipelines, patching, and incident response. Start ASAP is preferred.

Qualificações

• Strong hands-on AWS experience and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks.

Responsabilidades

• Manage and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure and production environments.
• Support platform reliability, observability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot incidents and lead resolution activities.
• Develop IaC using Terraform modules and automate tasks with Ansible.
• Support Kubernetes cluster operations and CI/CD improvements.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure security and compliance.

Conhecimentos

AWS services

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Incident management

IaC tooling

Ferramentas

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD tooling

Descrição da vaga

AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Title: AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Hybrid / Connacht

Salary: €100,000

Start Date: ASAP

Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our infrastructure and cloud operations team. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency of our AWS-based platforms and Kubernetes environments.

This role requires strong hands‑on experience across AWS infrastructure, automation, incident management, Kubernetes operations, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling including Terraform and Ansible.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure and production environments.
• Support and improve platform reliability, observability, scalability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot critical production incidents and lead issue resolution activities.
• Perform load balancer configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Manage infrastructure patching and vulnerability remediation activities.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform modules.
• Automate operational tasks and configuration management using Ansible modules/playbooks.
• Support Kubernetes cluster operations, deployments, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and operational best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:
• EC2
• VPC
• IAM
• EKS
• Route 53
• CloudWatch
• Auto Scaling
• Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)
• S3
• RDS

Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience with:

• Handling Critical Situations & Priority ManagementExperience managing high-severity production incidents.
• Ability to prioritise business-critical services during outages.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills during incidents.
• Experience with incident management frameworks and escalation processes.
• Load Balancer TroubleshootingDiagnosing connectivity, latency, SSL/TLS, routing, and health check issues.
• Experience troubleshooting AWS ALB/NLB configurations and backend service integration.
• PatchingOperating system and infrastructure patch management experience.
• Security patching and vulnerability remediation within cloud environments.
• Experience coordinating maintenance windows and minimising downtime.
• Terraform ModulesStrong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• Experience creating reusable Terraform modules and managing multi-environment deployments.
• Familiarity with remote state management and CI/CD integration.
• Ansible ModulesExperience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Configuration management and infrastructure automation expertise.
• Ability to automate provisioning, patching, and deployment tasks.
• Kubernetes Cluster Issues & ImplementationHands-on experience supporting Kubernetes clusters, preferably AWS EKS.
• Troubleshooting cluster, node, networking, ingress, and pod-related issues.
• Experience implementing and maintaining Kubernetes environments in production.
• Knowledge of scaling, monitoring, upgrades, and cluster security best practices.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
• Scripting experience with Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with container technologies including Docker.
• Experience working in Agile or DevOps environments.