Director, Site Reliability Engineering

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About the role:

As a Director of Site Reliability Engineering, you would combine software and systems engineering to build and run robust, fault-tolerant, distributed systems to operate at scale. A pivotal role with transformational leadership qualities creates a vision for SRE and drives the Automation and AI first culture. Responsible for End-to-end observability, availability, performance, and uptime of mission-critical services.

Responsibilities:

• This pivotal role will lead the SRE team and be responsible for maintaining reliability, performance, availability, and scalability.
• Help drive change across the company, working towards a standard methodology based around Site Reliability Engineering and Solid System Engineering practices.
• Lead the team in driving further adoption of Site Reliability practices such as, Chaos engineering, SLOs, Error Budgets, release safety, load testing, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Build teams through hiring and people growth while balancing your ownership workload through delegation. Define and review individual and team goals, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption where appropriate to drive innovation and productivity enhancement within the team (e.g., AIOps, CoPilot)
• Collaborate cross-organization to complete successful delivery with the broader functions, including but not limited to Security, Architecture, Operations, and Product Managers.
• Responsible for guiding and encouraging the personal and technical development, engagement, and growth of your direct reports
• Coach the organization on the principles of SREs, including incident response, automation, observability improvements, toil reduction, self-healing, and root cause analysis.
• Manage on-call rotations across the globe and implement the follow-the-sun model.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Infrastructure engineering/Operations, with at least 5+ years of management experience.
• Experience and knowledge of Public Cloud Infrastructure like Google Cloud, Cloud-based Applications, Containerization, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Observability and incident management tools like Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, and PagerDuty. etc
• Experience in running the CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Config Management (Ansible), GitHub Actions, and Jenkins. etc
• Strong leadership, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, delivering high-quality solutions, excellent communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and drive technical decisions across the organization

Ireland Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, increasing by one day per year to a maximum of 28 days

• 26 weeks paid maternity leave & 2 weeks paid paternity leave from start of employment

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage provided through Laya Healthcare, including spouse and children up to the age of 25

• Pension plan through Irish Life, with an employer match of 100% of the employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%

• Life insurance

• Group Income Protection

• U choose program - ₠325 every quarter to be spent on eligible items such as exercise equipment/membership, pet care, child care, home office set-up etc.

• Tuition Reimbursement program - up to ₠4,625 per year

• Employee Assistance Program available 24/7

• Adoption assistance, Surrogacy Assistance, Fertility Support, Gender Affirming Support

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.

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