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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Workday · Dublin, D, Ireland
Dublin, D, IrelandExp: 7+ yrs77,600-116,400 EUR/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
May be eligible for a bonus plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
Location
Dublin, D, Ireland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer supports and evolves large-scale MySQL and open-source database services across production and development environments. The role provides 24/7 operational support, participates in on-call response, automates improvements to availability and scalability, and helps architect reliable, secure production services using cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, alongside technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
Benefits
Bonus plan or role-specific commission/bonus eligibilityAnnual refresh stock grants
Qualifications
- At least 7 years managing databases for enterprise cloud applications at scale.
- At least 3 years working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL in private and public cloud platforms, including AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience with managed cloud databases such as AWS Aurora or Google Cloud SQL and database architecture principles.
- Experience operating Linux-based clustered open-source and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Riak.
- Proficiency in Python or Go and secondary scripting experience with Shell or Ruby.
- Experience with Linux operating systems and containerized environments.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience supporting mission-critical database workloads and high-availability production environments.
- Knowledge of MySQL GTID, group replication, and Galera high-availability solutions.
- Understanding of IaaS capacity management across AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
- Proficiency with GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.
Responsibilities
- Provide 24/7 operational support for customer environments.
- Evaluate, adopt, and deploy technologies and services into live production environments.
- Support large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments across production and development systems.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for critical production issues.
- Automate improvements to availability and scalability.
- Help architect existing and new production database services.
Skills
AnsibleAWSBashCassandraCephChefCloud SQLConfluenceDockerGCPGitGitHubGoJenkinsJiraKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRedisRubyTerraformArgo CD
Degrees
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field,
Work schedule
24/7 operational supportOn-call rotation
Industry
Database engineeringEnterprise cloud applications
Relocation
No