Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, fault tolerant systems in Azure
• Supporting capacity planning, auto-scaling, and performance optimisation of SaaS applications
• Automating provisioning, deployment, and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (ARM templates, Bicep, Terraform)
• Leading root-cause analysis and continuous improvement following incidents
• Monitoring system health and performance, proactively addressing issues before they impact customers
• Ensuring systems meet security and compliance requirements (ISO27001, SOC 2, GDPR)
• Driving continuous service improvement to achieve operational excellence
• Implementing smart alerting and incident response processes to ensure quick, effective resolution
• Collaborating with DevOps teams to optimise CI/CD pipelines for reliability and efficiency

MCS Group is delighted to announce a new opportunity for a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a growing international organisation as they seek to expand their cloud infrastructure team. This is pure SRE work so suits professionals with strong Azure cloud experience who are strong on systems reliability, monitoring, alerting and automation!

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience with incident and problem management tools (PagerDuty, ServiceNow)
• Full right to work in Ireland (Stamp 4/EU Citizenship). No sponsorship is available for this position.
• Solid understanding of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with a collaborative mindset
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog
• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (or similar role) within a SaaS or cloud-based environment
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates)
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, monitoring)
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, or similar)

(Hybrid - Dublin)

• Flexible working model
• Health Insurance
• Matched Pension Contributions
• Competitive Salary circa 100k
• Excellent annual leave allowance