Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior BizOps Engineer (SRE) – 12-Month Contract | Hybrid (Dublin)

💼 Contract: 12 months | 📍 Location: Dublin (Hybrid) | 💰 Day Rate: Competitive

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced Senior BizOps Engineer to join a high-performing global technology team delivering enterprise-grade integration and platform services for large-scale financial and digital systems.

This team focuses on ensuring application performance, scalability, and reliability across multiple integration domains including APIs, event gateways, messaging systems, edge services, and secure file transfer solutions.

You’ll work closely with development and product teams to enhance operational excellence, automation, and system resilience across complex distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are production-ready with the right monitoring, alerting, and deployment frameworks.
• Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives to drive scalability, high availability, and automation.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments and operational processes using tools like Jenkins, Git, and Chef.
• Contribute to ITSM best practices, risk management, and compliance efforts.
• Build self-healing systems that minimize downtime and improve mean time to recovery.
• Conduct sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems.
• Maintain and evolve automation workflows for certificate renewal, routing, alerting, and reporting using tools such as Ansible and Venafi.
• Collaborate across global teams to deliver safe, sound, and reliable platform services.

Top 3 Must-Have Skills (in order of importance):

NGINX / CI-CD / DevOps Concepts / SRE Mindset

• Proven understanding of operational resilience, automation, and reliability engineering principles.
• Hands-on experience with NGINX configuration and performance tuning.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Java + Monitoring Tools (Dynatrace / Splunk)

• Working knowledge of Java-based applications.
• Proficiency using Dynatrace and/or Splunk for monitoring, log analysis, and performance insights.

Jenkins / Git + Cloud (AWS / Azure)

• Strong experience managing build pipelines in Jenkins and version control via Git.
• Practical exposure to AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.

Additional Desirable Skills & Knowledge

• Understanding of Active Directory, OAuth, SAML, and other authentication protocols.
• Familiarity with load balancers, application firewalls, and network fundamentals (Layers 1–3).
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools, caching concepts, and configuration management.
• Background in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.

Why Join?

This is a unique opportunity to work with a global financial technology leader on mission-critical systems that impact millions of users. You’ll gain exposure to cutting-edge infrastructure, automation frameworks, and a culture that values innovation, reliability, and continuous improvement.