DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (Event-Driven Systems)

Location: Dublin - Hybrid

Type: Permanent

The Company

A well-established technology organisation building large-scale, high-availability platforms used across multiple markets. Having a solid engineering team, low attrition, and a genuinely positive working environment. You can expect a collaborative culture, modern tooling, and clear long-term career progression, supported by leadership that values quality, ownership, and people.

The Role

This is a senior hands-on engineering role focused on reliability, observability, and event-driven platforms. You will work closely with production systems, helping teams understand system behaviour, improve resilience, and operate complex distributed services at scale.

This role suits someone who enjoys solving real production problems and working within a strong, supportive team environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Improving observability using modern monitoring, logging, and tracing tools
• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for safe, automated deployments
• Supporting production systems through incident response and root cause analysis
• Operating and optimising Apache Kafka in high-throughput environments
• Working with event-driven architectures, including CQRS and event sourcing
• Applying strong security and compliance practices across platforms
• Working primarily in Azure-based environments with some AWS exposure

What We’re Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (essential)
• Background in event-driven systems and frameworks such as Axon
• Experience with cloud platforms, Linux, CI/CD, and DevOps tooling
• Comfortable working in production-critical environments
• 4–5+ years’ experience in platform, DevOps, SRE, or backend engineering roles