Senior Site Reliability Engineer Ireland
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Job Summary
Who Youll Work For
We are seeking an experienced and analytically-minded Site Reliability Engineer to join our organisation on a permanent remote basis from this role you will be instrumental in building deploying and operating critical production systems with a steadfast commitment to scalability reliability observability and security. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure our infrastructure remains resilient efficient and future-ready. This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges.
What Youll Do
- Design build and deploy production systems with a focus on scalability reliability observability and performance ensuring systems meet stringent security standards
- Develop and maintain comprehensive automation solutions to eliminate toil and streamline operational efficiency across production environments
- Proactively monitor production systems establish intelligent alerting strategies and implement automated incident response mechanisms to minimise downtime
- Create and maintain detailed incident response runbooks; conduct thorough postmortem analyses following incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to identify and resolve infrastructural bottlenecks designing innovative solutions that enhance product deployment workflows
- Manage and optimise monitoring infrastructure using industry-standard tools ensuring comprehensive visibility across all systems
- Plan communicate and execute maintenance windows on production systems with minimal disruption to service availability
- Triage platform and infrastructural issues with decisiveness and analytical rigour; engage with third-party vendors and support teams as required
- Deploy new systems and updates in a staged risk-managed manner ensuring safe and incremental rollouts
- Survey and adopt best practices in infrastructure and platform management to maintain secure scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Study the design and implementation details of open-source systems to enhance troubleshooting capabilities and accelerate issue resolution
- Work transparently with stakeholders to communicate system status planned maintenance and infrastructure improvements
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#automation #Ansible #Terraform #observability #Prometheus #Grafana #cloud platforms #AWS #GCP #Azure #container #orchestration #Kubernetes #Docker #CI/CD #Jenkins #GitLab
Qualifications :
**Essential Requirements:**
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent professional experience (5 years in a related infrastructure or systems role)
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Go Python or bash shell scripting with the ability to implement medium-complexity automation workflows
- Strong knowledge of Linux or UNIX from both administration and debugging perspectives
- Hands-on experience operating software systems infrastructure and complex applications at scale in production environments
- Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure-as-code principles and practices
- Strong problem-solving and software troubleshooting skills with a methodical analytical approach
- Experience with server provisioning particularly from storage and networking perspectives
- Proven ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly
- Experience with incident response postmortem analysis and continuous improvement methodologies
**Desirable Skills and Experience:**
- Experience with container orchestration platforms particularly Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Docker and virtualisation technologies
- Proficiency in managing monitoring stacks including Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab tools or Spinnaker
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code frameworks particularly Terraform
- Experience managing databases such as PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database management systems
- Experience with artifact repositories and Docker registries
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure)
- Understanding of distributed systems architecture and principles
- Experience with performance tuning and system optimisation
- Knowledge of security best practices in infrastructure and systems design
- On-call support experience and comfort with incident response responsibilities
Additional Information :
Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership including founders and engineering managers are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.
We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.
Our engineers have access to every part of the company providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara California with development offices in Australia Canada India Ireland and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.
Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention quality respect and fun.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and sof ... View more
