Database Reliability Engineer (SQL & Cloud Platforms)

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SolarWinds

Cork, Ireland

Hybrid

Posted April 15, 2026

Job Description

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

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 mod