Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Description

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

Requirements

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!

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

Benefits

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

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance