Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cork

Apple Inc.; Cork; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a candidate to join their operations team for a payments platform in Cork. This diverse role involves infrastructure design, monitoring production health, and implementing tools for optimizing operations. Ideal candidates will have experience supporting production applications, a strong foundation in Java, scripting languages, and database management, as well as the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Required BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Relevant experience supporting critical production applications.
• Fundamental knowledge in Java and scripting languages (Bash/Python).
• Significant experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience identifying performance bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure to support a payments platform.
• Monitor production health, including tickets and operational retrospect.
• Identify utilities that can assist in operations and execute development for them.
• Implement monitoring, alerting tools, and fault tolerance.

Skills

Java

Bash

Python

SQL

NoSQL

Performance optimization

Education

BS/MS Computer Science or Equivalent

Tools

Application monitoring and profiling tools

Container technology

CI/CD systems

Job description

Cork, County Cork, Ireland Software and Services

Description

In this role, you will be a part of the operations team for a payments platform. The role requires candidate to embrace a complex software product architecture to support a continuous stream of payments data to ensure accurate invoicing, disbursements, receipts and payments.This role is responsible for infrastructure design and scalability to support the platform and for the related product development. The role will actively monitor production health of the platform including tickets, operational retrospect’s and definition/management of necessary controls.As business evolves, this role will identify utilities that can assist in operations and execute the product development for it. Monitoring, alerting, profiling tools, fault tolerance etc will be a charter for this role.The platform is a part of very fast paced initiates from a range of business units. Good communication, building business relationships and thriving in fast pace are necessary for this role. Will you join us in crafting solutions that do not yet exist?

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS Computer Science or Equivalent.
• Relevant experience supporting critical production applications.
• Fundamental knowledge in Java and fluency in scripting languages such as Bash and/or Python.
• Significant experience querying and modifying data in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in identifying performance bottlenecks and suggesting optimizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in financial systems.
• Experience with application monitoring and profiling tools.
• Familiarity with container technology and CI/CD systems.