Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Role overview

Join us in building our new cloud product in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This is a role in a product Engineering team working on a specialised Cybersecurity Application tooling - https://waratek.com/products/

You will work closely with the Engineering team, helping them define IaC and observability, build secure process and support them in maintaining their applications. Focus of this role will be in defining the framework and toolbelt for engineering to use. We currently have a SaaS and on-prem offering - SaaS platform is the focus for this role. We don’t have a dedicated Ops or SRE team yet.

We are looking for someone who is excited about the possibility of building something new.

Responsibilities

Defining our new OCI landscape.
Working closely with Engineering on improving our processes, observability, and reliability of our services.
Drive for better ops processes, reliability, and visibility.

Core experience / qualifications

3+ years of experience in a SRE/DevOps role.
Practical experience with Java applications and ecosystem.
A good knowledge of Containers, Terraform, Monitoring tools (DataDog, Grafana…), Ansible, Incident management.
Understanding of security best practices in software development.
Experience with a variety of testing approaches.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Demonstrated ability to work on own initiative.

Desirable experience / skills

Knowledge of MySQL/Postgres, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Python, Groovy, IaC tooling.
Experience with OCI or AWS clouds.
Exposure to software security and its tooling - e.g., Snyk, Tenable and others.
Exposure to SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR technical requirements.
Knowledge of managing Windows services as well.
Leadership experience. We are looking to grow this team further.

About us

Waratek is the award-winning Software Defined security platform that enables security teams to automate the management of security behavior to reduce human error, remove false positives, and maintain lockstep with the rapid rate of code changes and deployments. Never before have security teams solved security at scale by protecting every application in their enterprise or patching vulnerabilities at scale with modern application development without a single code change, assistance from engineering, or fear of regressions in future releases.

We value candour, transparency and collaboration at all levels. Our culture is one of enablement which favours the team over the individual, with a strong sense of accountability and ownership, giving staff the space to explore and both invention and innovation to flourish. Our Glassdoor rating is 4.6 / 5.

Waratek is headquartered in the Silicon Docks area of Dublin, Ireland with US head operations in the Fulton Market District of Chicago IL.