Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Fulcrum Digital — Ireland · Posted ~2 weeks ago

Mid Full-time

Skills

Apache Kafka Distributed systems Site Reliability Engineering DevOps Automation Ansible CI/CD Scripting Incident management Production operations

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A platform engineering role focused on operating and scaling high-volume messaging infrastructure. You will apply SRE principles, improve availability and performance, automate operational workflows, build CI/CD processes, and participate in production incident management.

Highlights

Opportunity to own mission-critical messaging infrastructure, improve reliability and performance, and drive automation initiatives in a platform engineering environment.

Description

Who are we Fulcrum Digital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries, including banking & financial services, insurance, retail, higher education, food, healthcare, and manufacturing. Requirements Are you passionate about distributed systems, high‑scale messaging platforms, and automation‑first operations? We’re looking for a Kafka Messaging / SRE Engineer to join our growing platform engineering team and help build, operate, and scale mission‑critical messaging services. What You’ll Do Own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms in production environments Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performance Drive DevOps & automation initiatives to reduce toil and manual operations Build and enhance automation using Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines Perform incident management, RCA, capacity planning, and operational readiness Collaborate closely with application and platform engineering teams Contribute to Java-based tooling and platform enhancements What We’re Looking For 3–6 years of experience working with Kafka / messaging systems Strong understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, replication) Hands-on experience with SRE / DevOps practices Proven skills in automation (Ansible, scripting, CI/CD) Java development background (ability to debug, enhance, or build platform tools) Experience with Linux, distributed systems, monitoring & alerting Exposure to incident response, production support, and operational excellence