Senior Cloud Applications Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Applications Engineer: Designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise observability and monitoring stacks across hybrid/cloud platforms with an accent on driving best practices, improving monitoring quality, and ensuring high reliability and actionable alerting. Focus on leading complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and automating monitoring provisioning and remediation workflows.

Location: Cork, Ireland (Hybrid)

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in information management, focused on AI-first, future-driven, human-centered solutions.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise observability and monitoring stacks for hybrid/cloud platforms.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain monitoring and alerting systems including Operations Bridge Manager, Network Node Manager, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Graylog.
• Develop enterprise-wide SLIs/SLOs and ensure effective alerting aligned to business impact.
• Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for NOC, operations, and product teams.
• Lead complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement plans.
• Drive automation initiatives for monitoring provisioning, configurations, and remediation workflows using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Ensure GDPR and DPZ compliance for EMEA-region workloads and implement AI-driven improvements such as anomaly detection.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant experience in observability and monitoring technologies (correlation, event pipelines, topology, service modeling) including Graylog and Prometheus.
• Expertise in NNMi skills, network topology, polling strategies, SNMP, traps, and RCA.
• Deep understanding of Zabbix architectures, templates, event routing, and automation.
• Proven SRE experience with SLIs/SLOs, reliability architecture, and incident management.
• Strong understanding of Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and scaling concepts for production systems.
• Expertise in automation using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible integration with GitLab pipelines.
• Strong understanding of GDPR principles, data protection rules, and EMEA data residency requirements.
• Foundational understanding of AI Concepts and Machine learning basics.
• Hands-on experience with NewRelic and/or Dynatrace.

Nice to have

• Enterprise OpenTelemetry pipeline design and collector configurations.
• Experience with OpsBridge Aviator, SMAX, AIOps-driven correlation engines, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Grafana.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring tools, SIEM, security logging, and compliance frameworks.
• Knowledge of Kafka/AMQP pipelines or light programming in Go or Java for exporters/integrations.
• Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), cloud certifications, or Zabbix certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a global community where trust, innovation, creativity, and collaboration are key components of the corporate culture.
• Opportunity to partner with highly regarded companies and contribute to projects shaping the future of digital transformation.
• hirify.global fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.
• Commitment to an inclusive work environment and diversity policy.
• Assistance and reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process.