Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Core
Lead the Dublin/EMEA Site Reliability Engineering team to evolve operations into a Platform as a Service (PaaS) organization, supporting AI-driven internal workflows and global platform strategy.
Role type
Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (People Management & Strategy)
Builds
Self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, self-healing patterns, and AI-driven internal workflows (model serving, GPU scheduling, orchestration)
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / AI/ML Workloads / Kubernetes
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Kubernetes platform leadership, AWS public cloud management, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipeline design, AI/ML workload support, Observability (Grafana, Splunk, APM), Cross-regional incident management, Team hiring and development, Strategic roadmap planning
Preferred skills
Organizational transformation to Platform Engineering, AI agent orchestration, Multi-cloud governance, Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD), Enterprise SCM platforms (GitHub, GitLab)
Responsibilities
Lead the Dublin/EMEA SRE team and drive the strategic roadmap for self-service platform capabilities; Direct team execution for hosting AI-driven internal workflows at scale; Serve as operational escalation point for cross-regional incidents and platform scaling challenges; Oversee EMEA participation in follow-the-sun on-call rotation and drive blameless postmortem culture; Establish organizational standards for SLIs/SLOs and operational readiness; Champion modern SDLC, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code practices; Hire, retain, and develop diverse engineering talent across all levels; Partner with product engineering, security, and enterprise architecture leaders to align infrastructure initiatives.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with formal people management