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Lead Site Reliability Engineer
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About this role
Role overview
Lead reliability engineering across a large financial services platform, setting technical direction and coordinating reliability work across engineering teams. The role combines hands-on architecture for cloud infrastructure with incident leadership, operational standards, and mentoring a team of site reliability engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-team reliability initiatives and establish shared SRE practices, tools, and technical standards. - Design multi-region AWS infrastructure that balances service reliability, cost, performance, and security. - Define service level objectives and error budgets; lead major incident response and post-incident reviews. - Develop disaster recovery, chaos engineering, and systematic reliability testing practices. - Build reusable Terraform infrastructure patterns and advanced Kubernetes capabilities, including security and multi-tenancy. - Set observability and delivery standards using metrics, logs, tracing, CI/CD, and progressive delivery; guide cloud cost optimization. - Mentor SREs, review architecture and designs, coordinate on-call improvements, and align plans with engineering, product, and security partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience. - Seven to ten years in site reliability engineering or a comparable discipline, with demonstrated technical leadership and delivery of complex projects. - Expert AWS architecture skills, including large-scale, multi-region environments; deep production Kubernetes experience. - Extensive Terraform experience, including shared infrastructure modules or platforms. - Production software engineering experience in Python and/or Go. - Strong observability experience with Datadog and Splunk, and ability to lead incident response and reliability planning. - Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer; visa sponsorship is not available.
Benefits and work setup
The listing describes remote or hybrid work options, with reliable wired high-speed home internet and a suitable workspace required for those arrangements. Benefits listed include retirement plan contributions, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and holidays, volunteer time, and parental and disability leave.