Fulcrum Digital

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer -

Fulcrum Digital Shankill, Leinster, Ireland

IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 07
sre Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Ireland
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About the role

The SRE will own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms while applying SRE principles to improve system reliability and performance. They will also drive DevOps automation initiatives and collaborate with engineering teams on incident management and platform enhancements.

What they look for

Kafka SRE DevOps Ansible CI/CD Java Linux Distributed systems Monitoring Alerting Incident management Capacity planning Automation Messaging systems Production support

Requirements

Candidates must have 4–7 years of experience with Kafka and messaging systems, along with a strong background in Java development. Proficiency in automation tools like Ansible and CI/CD pipelines, as well as experience with Linux and distributed systems, is required.

Full description

Who We Are

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.

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

  • 4–7 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

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