VP SRE Lead: Build-From-Scratch Reliability

Cpl; Dublin; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Cpl is partnering exclusively with a leading global financial services organisation to recruit a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead at VP level in Dublin. You will stand up the SRE function from scratch, hire and mentor a team, and own reliability as the core mission.

You will drive release readiness, platform stability and risk visibility across the estate, introducing SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction and governance. A rare opportunity to shape a capability within a fast-scaling EMEA hub.

Qualifications

• Experience leading SRE or reliability engineering functions in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong grounding across compute, virtualization, storage and networking on‑premises and cloud.
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tooling, Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and lead a brand-new SRE function, building and mentoring a high-performing team across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Take end-to-end ownership of reliability outcomes—release readiness, platform stability and risk visibility across the estate.
• Introduce modern SRE disciplines: SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and toil reduction baked into design from day one.
• Champion observability, automation and Infrastructure as Code to lift system health and reduce manual effort.
• Act as the connective tissue between Engineering, Operations, Security and Architecture, threading SRE thinking through BAU and release governance.
• Lead on operational resilience and risk, chairing change forums and managing escalations via on‑call rotations.

Skills

SRE leadership

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Architectural thinking

Strategic planning

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

VMware

Job description

Cpl is partnering exclusively with a leading global financial services organisation to recruit a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead at VP level in Dublin. You will stand up the SRE function from scratch, hire and mentor a team, and own reliability as the core mission.

You will drive release readiness, platform stability and risk visibility across the estate, introducing SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction and governance. A rare opportunity to shape a capability within a fast-scaling EMEA hub.