The Company

The Role

Pilz Ireland is recruiting for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. This is an opportunity for an experienced SRE or DevOps engineer to join a new team and to enter at an early stage, with the ability to shape the future of the systems and services offered by Pilz Ireland.
The SRE team is responsible for the following broad headings within the Pilz organization, operations, availability, latency, performance, monitoring, change management, emergency response and capacity management.

Key Responsibilities

• Incident management and conducting post incident reviews
• Design and implementation of software to assist in operations and support
• Work closely with developer to ensure designed solutions meet non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security and maintainability
• Improving the internal and external process and systems within the Pilz organization. Moving from ad-hoc to infrastructure and configuration as code though out the organization
• Implementing monitoring and alerting throughout in house and cloud-based systems
• Improving the reliability of systems though out the organization and working with product teams to help improve their products
• Support on production and inhouse systems
• Define SLOs and SLAs for Pilz Products
• Define and manage release budgets
• Managing the inhouse development and CICD systems
• Responsible for design, implementation, maintainability for robust, scalable, high-quality software and systems within the SRE domain
• Take responsibility for complex project tasks and contributes to technical decisions to ensure successful delivery.
• Contribute to the site architecture for all pilz products product
• Active member of the best practice SRE function striving for and achieving higher standards of individual and team performance
• Build relationships external to the team
• Drive and achieve knowledge sharing across all product
• Continuous education and development of technical skill set, and proven demonstration applied to domain
• Identify personal development opportunities, set goals and proven ability to deliver on them
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and drive companywide improvement

Essential Criteria

• BSc in a related field such as Computer Science, Computer Eng, Elec Eng or equivalent and 5-7 Years’ professional development or operations experience
• 2-3 years in a DevOps engineering or SRE role
• 2-3 years proven experience in cloud computing
• Experience in VMWare ESXi
• Experience in AWS
• Configuration Management Technologies, such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Salt
• Infrastructure as Code Technologies, such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience with, and high-level understanding of, multiple operating systems. including, Ubuntu, MacOS & Windows
• Scripting in languages such as Bash or Python
• CICD and Build pipelines both in Jenkins and Gitlab
• Experience working with multiple teams to facilitate orderly project and release plans
• Experience in issue analysis in a cloud environment

Desired Criteria

• Databases such as MySQL / Postgres
• Experience in cloud based multi tenancy
• Defining SLO’s and SLA’s, defining and monitoring release budget
• Experience in emergency response & on call
• Understanding of the current best principles around Security Management
• Experience working in an agile development team using SCRUM
• Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus & CloudWatch
• Logging with CloudWatch, ELK / EFK
• Experience in an SRE team and understanding of SRE principles
• Experience in backup and restore processes and procedures

Terry MacCabe
Senior HR Generalist
careers@pilz.ie

http://www.pilz.com