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We work in a hybrid mode 3+2, with a minimum of 3 days at the office (with mandatory Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and a maximum of 2 days at the home office.
The location of our office is Unit 1101, Building 1000, Cork (city), Munster.
We employ only via an employment contract – full-time employment.
Overview:
The Database Reliability Engineer (DRE) is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of both legacy and modern data platforms. This role covers installing, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing Microsoft SQL Server instances (on-prem and in Azure), while also expanding into modern data ecosystems such as Databricks, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and cloud-native data lakes and warehouses. The DRE will report to Director of IT and will work closely with Engineering, Data, and Business Intelligence teams to enable seamless data delivery and platform reliability across hybrid environments.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitor and optimize database performance, availability, and security across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and cloud data platforms.
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, service interruptions, and incidents impacting Engineering and Data teams.
- Support and evolve hybrid environments (on-prem SQL Server, Azure SQL, GCP BigQuery, Databricks Delta Lake).
- Design and implement data reliability, observability, and monitoring strategies using modern tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite).
- Apply OS updates, patches, and cumulative updates to SQL Server VMs (Always-On Availability Groups), ensuring consistency across environments.
- Automate database operations and deployment pipelines (IaC, CI/CD, scripting with PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or similar).
- Implement and monitor regular database maintenance tasks, including backups, restores, and database consistency checks, to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Manage data replication, synchronization, and migrations across on-prem and cloud environments.
- Support data lake and warehouse integrations, optimizing pipelines for BI, analytics, and machine learning workloads.
- Define and enforce data access, governance, and security best practices across hybrid data environments.
- Perform disaster recovery planning and testing across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and cloud-native storage systems.
- Deploy and validate scripts and data models across environments, ensuring adherence to design and compliance standards.
- Create and maintain documentation for both legacy and modern database platforms.
- Act as a point of contact for database and data platform service requests, providing technical support and guidance to internal stakeholders.
- Stay current with industry trends in data reliability engineering, cloud platforms, and automation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Required: Minimum 3 years of experience in MS SQL Server database administration and T-SQL programming (including Azure SQL).
- Experience managing GCP BigQuery (Delta Lake, Spark SQL) and/or Azure.
- Familiarity with data lakes, warehouses, and modern ETL/ELT pipelines (SSIS, ADF, dbt, or equivalent).
- Experience with automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code for data platforms (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Knowledge of monitoring/observability tools for database reliability (Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite, or open-source alternatives).
- Ability to effectively triage and resolve complex database reliability issues across hybrid environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide technical support and collaborate across teams.
- Must be able to handle multiple priorities in a high-demand environment.
- Flexibility to work weekends and holidays as required.
Our benefits:
- 20 days which increases with tenure
- 1-3 sick days per year
- 2 volunteering days per year
- 4 weeks’ holidays after 5-year tenure, Sabbatical Leave
- Up to € 3,200 per year personal education budget per year
- Gym access free on-site gym access 24 hours a day
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- Solarian Referral Program
- SolarWinds Appreciation Program
- Giving – Donation Matching
- Employee Assistance
- Competitive Race Reimbursement
- and others
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of experience in MS SQL Server database administration and T-SQL programming
- Experience managing GCP BigQuery and/or Azure
- Familiarity with data lakes and modern ETL/ELT pipelines
- Experience with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code for data platforms
- Knowledge of monitoring tools for database reliability
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
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What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
