Senior Specialist, SRE

Location: Dublin 3, Ireland; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global delivers custom applications, managed services, AI-driven analytics, cybersecurity, networking, digital transformation, and cloud solutions for organizations across industries.

What you will do

• Lead customer discovery and translate business and service requirements into DevOps, platform, and reliability solutions.
• Own solution designs covering CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability, security, and operational support.
• Lead technical workstreams, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and assure designs across delivery and operations.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex platform, deployment, automation, and reliability issues; identify root causes and reduce recurring incidents.
• Transition projects into managed services with documentation, monitoring, support models, security controls, and service acceptance.
• Standardize reusable pipelines, templates, and infrastructure modules; facilitate customer workshops and use service data to prioritize reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Strong enterprise DevOps, platform, or cloud-native engineering experience, technical leadership, and clear communication.
• Experience delivering and supporting reliable services in Azure and hybrid environments.
• Source control, branching strategies, release automation, and controlled promotion between environments.
• CI/CD engineering with Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent platforms.
• Infrastructure as code and configuration automation using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Azure governance, identity, networking, security, and operational management.
• Docker, Kubernetes concepts, and containerized workloads.
• Logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and service health using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent tools.
• DevSecOps, secrets management, policy enforcement, vulnerability management, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and operational supportability.
• Technical workstream leadership, design assurance, stakeholder influence, documentation, customer workshops, and communication of technical risks and trade-offs.
• Infrastructure knowledge sufficient to understand dependencies and service impacts, with a focus on engineering, automation, and reliability rather than desktop or product-specific infrastructure administration.
• Experience managing M365, Azure MFA and conditional access policies, mobile devices and Intune configuration policies.
• Backup and restoration, Windows Server 2016/2019/2022/2025 administration, VMware or Hyper-V virtualization, hybrid Exchange, and Defender for Endpoint configuration.
• Experience with Dell VxRail, PowerStore, PowerProtect Backup, PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, or Commvault Metallic.

Nice to have

• Practical AKS experience, platform engineering, and internal developer platform experience.
• Azure landing zones, self-service provisioning, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel.
• SRE practices involving service level indicators, service level objectives, and error budgets.
• Blameless incident learning and continuous reliability improvement.
• PowerShell, Python, or Bash scripting and automation.
• IT service management covering incident, change, problem, release, and service transition.
• Managed services, consultancy, or multi-customer delivery experience.
• Relevant Azure, DevOps, Kubernetes, automation, or site reliability certifications.
• Experience coaching engineers and promoting reusable, secure, and supportable engineering practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment in a hybrid workplace.
• Collaborative environment focused on teamwork, innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.
• Work across cloud solutions, cybersecurity, AI-driven analytics, and next-generation infrastructure.
• Inclusive hiring approach welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities.