DYNE
SENIOR SRE / DEVOPS ENGINEER – NGINX & GATEWAY SYSTEMS
DYNEIreland16 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology
About The Role

Eligibility: Candidates across Europe who hold EU citizenship and can relocate to Dublin from day one are encouraged to apply.

We are looking for a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineerwith deep expertise in NGINX, gateway platforms, traffic routing, security certificates, and incident operations. This role focuses heavily on operational readiness, production stability, automation, observability, and compliance for high-traffic distributed systems.

Eligibility: Candidates across Europe who hold EU citizenship and can relocate to Dublin from day one are encouraged to apply.

Key Responsibilities

Service Lifecycle Reliability

  • Own and improve the full lifecycle of services — from design, deployment to operations.
  • Ensure operational readiness across performance, scalability, availability, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities.
  • Lead incident response and run blameless postmortems to optimize MTTR.

NGINX Gateway Expertise

  • Strong hands-on experience with NGINX configurations, reverse proxies, SSL termination, routing, and gRPC-based architectures.
  • Manage large-scale traffic routing, security headers, load balancing (F5 / BIG-IP), and gateway integrations.

Automation CI/CD

  • Build and maintain automation for:
  • Certificate renewal (mTLS, SSL handshake)
  • Traffic routing adjustments
  • Monitoring and compliance reporting
  • Use tools such as Ansible, Venafi, XLR, Jenkins, Groovy, Bitbucket/Git.
  • Support CI/CD gating and promotion pipelines.

Monitoring Observability

  • Implement and manage alerting, logging, and observability frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with:
  • Dynatrace
  • Splunk
  • Establish proactive detection and response mechanisms.

Security, Compliance ITSM

  • Drive initiatives tied to PCI compliance, risk management, threat reduction, and governance.
  • Work with ITSM teams to close defects, improve processes, and strengthen resiliency.

Troubleshooting Systems Analysis

  • Perform advanced debugging:
  • TCP dumps
  • Stack traces
  • Thread/heap dumps
  • OS-level troubleshooting
  • Strong understanding of authentication frameworks:
  • OAuth
  • SAML
  • SSO
  • Active Directory

Collaboration

  • Work across global teams and mentor junior engineers.
  • Provide feedback to development teams about operational gaps and improvements.

Required Skills

Must-Have

  • Strong hands-on NGINX configuration traffic routing
  • Experience with gRPC architectures
  • AWS (infrastructure secure access)
  • Chef, Jenkins, Groovy, Shell scripting
  • Ansible, Git/Bitbucket
  • XLR template experience
  • Dynatrace, Splunk (monitoring alerting)
  • Strong networking knowledge (L1–L7, load balancers, firewalls)

Good-to-Have

  • Experience with self-healing architectures
  • Building resiliency frameworks
  • Distributed system observability
  • DevOps transformation projects

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication documentation
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional global teams
  • Strong analytical and debugging mindset
  • Leadership in mentoring and operational ownership

Key Skills

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