Location: Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)

Role Overview:

We are hiring a Devops/SRE Senior Engineer for one of our clients. In this role, you will act as the production readiness steward for versatile Gateway products and integration with other platforms. You will partner with development teams to design, implement, and support services with a focus on operational resilience, automation, and compliance.

What You'll Do:

• Lifecycle Ownership: Engage in and improve the entire service lifecycle—from design and deployment to operations and continuous improvement.

• Operational Readiness: Ensure system availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities are embedded throughout delivery.

• Incident Management: Practice sustainable incident response, lead blameless postmortems, and optimize Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).

• Automation & CI/CD:

  • Develop and maintain automation pipelines for certificate renewal, traffic routing, alerting, and compliance reporting using tools like Ansible, Venafi & XLR template.

  • Support CI/CD pipelines for software promotion and operational gating.

• Reliability Engineering: Scale systems sustainably through automation and advocate for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

• Compliance & Risk Management: Drive initiatives for Safety & Soundness, PCI compliance, threat/toil reduction, and ITSM defect resolution.

• Monitoring & Observability: Implement robust logging, monitoring, and alerting standards to ensure system health and proactive issue detection. Hands-on experience with Dynatrace & Splunk monitoring tool configuration and alerting.

• Collaboration: Work with global teams across multiple time zones and mentor junior engineers.

• Continuous Improvement: Provide feedback loops to development teams on resiliency gaps and operational enhancements.

• Rotational On-Call & Flexibility:

  • Participate in rotational on-call support for critical production systems.

  • Demonstrate flexibility to take on additional responsibilities and ad-hoc duties as needed to support team and organizational goals.

Who You Are:

• Experience: 5+ years in Devops/SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps roles.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong understanding of NGINX configuration and gRPC event-driven architectures.

• Proficiency in DevOps tools: Chef, Jenkins, Groovy, shell scripting, Bitbucket, Git, Ansible, XLR.

• Experience with AWS infrastructure, secure access practices, and cloud-native deployments.

Security & Compliance:

• Awareness of certificate lifecycle management, mutual TLS, SSL handshake, SSH keys, encryption standards.

• Familiarity with ITSM processes, compliance frameworks, and incident management.

Networking & Systems:

• Knowledge of client-server relationships, network layers (L1–L7), load balancers (BIG-IP F5), and application firewalls.

• Ability to analyze stack traces, TCP dumps, heap/thread dumps, and perform OS-level troubleshooting.

Authentication & Authorization:

• Intermediate understanding of Active Directory, SAML, LTPA, SSO, OAuth.

Soft Skills:

• Strong documentation and communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and mentor junior resources.

Preferred Experience:

• Building self-healing systems and operational resiliency frameworks.

• Implementing observability solutions for distributed systems.

• Driving DevOps transformation and automation best practices in large-scale environments

About Sperton:

This Position is Sponsored by Sperton Global, a recruitment and consulting company with an international reach. We are committed to helping our clients achieve success in their hiring processes, finding the right people for the right positions.