Sr. Staff SRE: Cloud Release & Test Platforms

ServiceNow; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global well-being days

Parental leave programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

ServiceNow in Ireland seeks a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to lead reliability engineering and platform modernization. You will design and operate cloud-native platforms, scale Kubernetes, and integrate CI/CD, GitOps, and automated testing.

Collaborate with engineering teams on design reviews, architecture standards, and automation-first reliability practices, and build reusable test frameworks, developer tooling, and observability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software, systems, platform, or reliability engineering.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise across architecture, operations, networking, storage, security, autoscaling, and multi-cluster environments.
• Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms for cloud-native services.
• Experience integrating Kubernetes with CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, and deployment validation.
• Experience designing cloud-native platforms for episodic environments, release qualifications, and automated validation.
• Proven ability to lead engineering excellence across developer productivity, platform engineering, and modernization.
• Experience with progressive delivery (canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback, deployment verification).
• Experience with chaos engineering, resilience validation, disaster recovery, and reliability assessments.
• Expertise coding in Python, Go, Java, or Ruby; experience with AI-assisted engineering for testing and automation.
• Strong observability, SLOs, and cross-team collaboration to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud-native engineering platforms for software validation, release qualification, and operational readiness.
• Design production-like release and test environments to improve release confidence and deployment readiness.
• Develop automated quality gates to assess release health, operational risk, and production readiness.
• Integrate automated testing, observability, reliability signals, and deployment intelligence into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build reusable test frameworks, self-service environments, test data, mock services, and developer productivity tooling.
• Advance shift-left engineering through automated validation, continuous verification, and quality gates.
• Automate failure detection, policy validation, deployment verification, security checks, and reliability assessments.
• Lead Kubernetes-based platform evolution for scalable test infrastructure, release automation, and developer self-service.
• Resolve recurring infrastructure issues through sustainable software, systems, and networking solutions.
• Partner with engineering teams on design reviews, architecture standards, and automation-first reliability practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Python/Go/Java/Ruby

Observability

SRE practices

Automation

Cloud platforms

Release engineering

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Prometheus/OpenTelemetry

Job description

ServiceNow in Ireland seeks a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to lead reliability engineering and platform modernization. You will design and operate cloud-native platforms, scale Kubernetes, and integrate CI/CD, GitOps, and automated testing.

Collaborate with engineering teams on design reviews, architecture standards, and automation-first reliability practices, and build reusable test frameworks, developer tooling, and observability.