Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineers at UKG are critical team members that have a breadth of knowledge encompassing all aspects of service delivery. They develop software solutions to enhance, harden and support our service delivery processes. This can include building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, chaos engineering and auto remediation.

Site Reliability Engineers must be passionate about learning and evolving with current technology trends. They strive to innovate and are relentless in pursuing a flawless customer experience. They have an automate everything mindset, helping us bring value to our customers by deploying services with incredible speed, consistency, and availability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from conception to EOL, including system design
  consulting, and capacity planning
• Define and implement standards and best practices related to: System Architecture, Service
  delivery, metrics and the automation of operational tasks
• Support services, product & engineering teams by providing common tooling and frameworks to
  deliver increased availability and improved incident response
• Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through automation, process
  refinement, postmortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis
• Collaborate closely with engineering professionals within the organization to deliver reliable
  services
• Increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services by treating operational
  challenges as a software engineering problem (reduce toil)
• Guide junior team members and serve as a champion for Site Reliability Engineering
• Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities

Required Qualifications:

• Must have at least 3 years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud
• Minimum 2 years' experience with public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Minimum 2 years' Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/or
  systems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company
• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Cloud based applications & Containerization Technologies
• Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregation
  pipelines
• Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security,
  or Network Design fundamentals Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.

Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com

Client-provided location(s): Kilkenny, Ireland

Job ID: ukg-893383335092

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-16T11:40:31