Service Reliability Manager – Permanent

 Overview

My Dublin based client is recruiting for a Service Reliability Manager to join the team. The role will involve working closely with teams in Infrastructure, Operations and with Engineering on the design planning. The successful candidate will build a team and come from a strong development background. The role will suit anyone coming from a Lead or Managerial background.

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will develop and drive initiatives to enhance the availability and resilience of Application services
• The successful candidate identify opportunities to apply engineering principles that continually.
• The successful candidate will develop strategies, frameworks and approaches to ensure optimal Application Performance and capacity in Production
• The candidate will heavily contribute to the formulation of Architectural standards and Operational processes relevant to your team and remit
• The successful candidate will build, mentor and coach a cohesive, engaged, and customer- team of Developers, Testers, System Engineers and Application Support analysts
• The candidate will support incident, problem and maintenance activities for Production Application Services in order to protect SLA

Skills Required

• Must have Strong Java design and development experience with Application stack of Java, Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat, etc
• The successful candidate must have strong knowledge of operational concerns such as monitoring, mean time to recovery, application resiliency, capacity & performance
• The candidate must have excellent understanding of engineering best practices with strong background and bias for automation
• Linux Operating system knowledge
•  Proven past experience of working in or very closely with Infrastructure and/or Technical Operations teams

Nice to have but not essential

• Experience working by Agile methodologies
• Understanding and experience of HA infrastructure design and operation
• Good Experience with development or operating  in Azure, Kubernetes, Docker environments
• Continuous Integration/Continuous delivery environments
• Monitoring and alerting solutions such as Elastic, Nagios, etc
• Automation technologies and tools (Chef, Ansible, Openstack, etc)
• Line management or Team lead experience