Senior Engineer, Site Reliability

LearnUpon is looking for a Senior Engineer, Site Reliability to join their team in Dublin. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining a highly available and scalable infrastructure, as well as identifying opportunities to improve and scale the infrastructure for performance, observability, maintainability, and cost.

Requirements

• At least five years production system administration/SRE experience
• At least three years serving a large-scale SaaS web application solution with AWS, or similar cloud provider
• Strong experience with implementing infrastructure as code (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform etc.), automation tooling (e.g. Puppet, Ansible etc.), CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Travis CI, GitLab etc.)
• Experience in implementing observability tech stacks using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic etc.
• Ability to analyse and optimise performance in high-traffic web applications
• Ability to solve complex, high-impact problems
• Experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems that back a consumer app or website with associated requirements of performance, security and disaster recovery
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas to and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers
• Experience deploying microservice environments, using containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is an advantage
• Certification in AWS, any PaaS, and/or related technologies is not required but considered a big plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary and company ESOP
• 25 days’ annual leave and 1 annual wellness day
• Private health insurance and company pension
• Parental benefits, including up to 26 weeks’ paid maternity leave, 4 weeks paid paternity leave, and coaching support for new parents
• Up to 4 weeks’ per year working abroad (role eligibility applies)
• Clear career progression opportunities — take LearnUpon where you think it can go
• A collaborative and supportive environment with regular team events