Site Reliability Engineering Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a group of Site Reliability Engineers.

• Develop and implement the SRE strategy, standards, best practices, and operational frameworks.

• Enhance application reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience in collaboration with product and platform teams.

• Establish and uphold Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.

• Oversee major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and conduct post-incident reviews.

• Propel cloud modernization and application migrations to Azure, AWS, and containerized environments.

• Advocate for automation and Infrastructure as Code methodologies utilizing Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Ansible.

• Formulate observability strategies incorporating metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to enterprise security and regulatory requirements.

• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on cloud-native and resilient application design.

• Manage capacity planning, performance optimization, cost management, and operational efficiency.

• Establish engineering guardrails, governance controls, and standards for production deployment.

• Facilitate the shift towards DevOps and SRE practices.

• Manage operational risk and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness.

• Prioritize reliability enhancements and platform investments in consultation with stakeholders.

• Conduct resource planning and assist with hiring, onboarding, and career development initiatives.

• Set team objectives that align with both business and technology strategies.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in reliability engineering and a trusted advisor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.

• At least 2 years of leadership or people management experience overseeing engineering teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

• Preferably possess Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related certifications.

• Demonstrated success in leading reliability and operational excellence initiatives in large-scale enterprise settings.

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing technical engineering teams.

• In-depth knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering.

• Extensive experience with Azure and/or AWS.

• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, containerization, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.

• Proficient in Terraform and Ansible.

• Strong background in observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Dynatrace, or Datadog.

• Experience managing large-scale production environments with high availability demands.

• Knowledge of security, compliance, networking, and cloud governance principles.

• Experience in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems.

• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or C#.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and software delivery automation.

• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong documentation and presentation capabilities.

• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for annual incentive bonuses.

• Country-specific employee benefits.

• Support for accommodation or adjustments during the hiring process.