Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer -
Fulcrum Digital · Shankill, Leinster, Ireland
IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees
About the role
You will own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms while applying SRE principles to ensure high reliability and performance. Additionally, you will drive automation initiatives and collaborate with engineering teams to manage incidents and enhance platform tooling.
What they look for
Requirements
The ideal candidate has 3-6 years of experience with Kafka architecture and messaging systems. You must possess strong skills in automation, Java development, and Linux, along with a proven background in SRE or DevOps practices.
Full 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
