In this role the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for managing and resolving the most challenging issues for the ServiceNow SRE team focusing on instance performance reliability and availability. This is a swing shift role (4 days a week) and the candidate must be located within the Republic of Ireland.
What you get to do in this role:
- Provide relief and sustainable resolution to issues within our infrastructure.
- Conduct root cause analysis of incidents and implement preventive measures.
- Participate in troubleshooting bridges and provide support during critical incidents.
- Use your experience in software development systems engineering and networking to proactively prevent repeatable issues.
- Drive initiatives with partner teams to improve the reliability and performance of the infrastructure through improved system design.
- Drive a culture of intolerance to manual activity which results in a highly automated environment delivering scalable solutions.
- Design develop and maintain scalable and reliable systems.
- Implement and manage monitoring alerting and incident response processes.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure the reliability and performance of new features.
- Automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reduce human error.
- Innovate and continuously improve system reliability performance and capacity.
Qualifications :
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes decision-making or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools automating workflows analyzing AI-driven insights or exploring AIs potential impact on the function or industry.
- 8 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering or similar role.
- A degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- Self-motivated go-getter attitude with a proven ability to lead and drive initiatives across the organization.
- The ability to inspire collaboration navigate ambiguity and drive initiatives from concept to successful execution consistently delivering impactful results.
- Extensive experience with ITIL-based IT operations including incident problem and change management.
- Advanced expertise in Unix/Linux system administration including troubleshooting memory processes storage network connectivity and performance issues using command-line utilities and shell scripting.
- Proficient in automation tools and security best practices ensuring robust scalable and secure production operations across diverse environments.
- Comprehensive knowledge of networking protocols including TCP/IP DNS HTTP/HTTPS TLS/SSL FTP/SFTP DHCP among others.
- Solid experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres including performance tuning and query optimization.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools like Terraform Puppet or Ansible.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python Go or Java.
- Cloud experience across AWS Azure or GCP;
- Proficiency in using monitoring and logging tools like Splunk Prometheus Grafana or ELK stack.
- Experience with Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment scaling and management of containers.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to details.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate solutions to technical problems
- Ability to work in shifts which are from 3 pm to 1 am.
Additional good to have qualification:
- Certifications in one or more public cloud platforms
- Exposure to DevOps and Agile methodologies.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Understanding of development on ServiceNow platform
Additional Information :
Work Personas
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ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation national origin or nationality ancestry age disability gender identity or expression marital status veteran status or any other category protected by addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time