Job Description

Dublin 3 Days a week/ 1 Year

Job Description – SRE (Observability & Database Reliability Engineer)

Role Summary
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong Database Reliability and Observability expertise to ensure high availability, performance, and operational visibility of business‑critical platforms. This role has a strong emphasis on dashboards, observability, Splunk, and operational reporting, along with hands‑on database operations in complex production environments.

Key Responsibilities

SRE & Reliability Engineering
- Own end‑to‑end reliability, availability, and performance of applications and database platforms.
- Define, implement, and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Proactively identify reliability risks using metrics, trends, and capacity analysis.
- Lead production incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and post‑incident reviews.
- Drive automation to reduce operational toil and improve MTTR.
- Participate in on‑call rotations and support 24x7 production environments.

Observability, Dashboards & Reporting (Primary Focus)
- Design and maintain end‑to‑end observability covering metrics, logs, alerts, and traces.
- Build and manage real‑time operational and executive dashboards for system health, availability, latency, and database performance.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Splunk including log ingestion, SPL queries, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
- Correlate application, infrastructure, and database events to detect issues proactively.
- Create and publish operational reports (daily / weekly / monthly) covering availability, incidents, SLO compliance, performance KPIs, and capacity trends.
- Translate technical metrics into actionable insights for engineering and leadership teams.

Database Reliability & Operations
- Support and operate enterprise databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle (mandatory experience in at least one).
- Monitor and tune database performance including queries, indexes, and resource utilization.
- Design and support high availability, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Perform database upgrades, patching, migrations, and routine health checks.
- Integrate database monitoring and logs with observability platforms.

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Required Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of experience in SRE, Production Support, DevOps, or Reliability Engineering roles.
- Strong expertise in observability and monitoring tools, with mandatory hands‑on experience in Splunk.
- Proven experience in dashboard building and operational reporting.
- Strong hands‑on experience with PostgreSQL or Oracle databases.
- Solid Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with incident response, RCA, and production on‑call support.
- Proficiency in scripting using Python, Shell, or Bash.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Knowledge of capacity planning, forecasting, and performance baselining.
- Experience supporting regulated or high‑availability systems.

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