Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives across multiple teams, aligning technical efforts with business priorities • Define and evolve SRE best practices, tools, methodologies, and technical standards • Architect enterprise-scale, multi-region AWS infrastructure balancing reliability, cost, performance, and security • Establish SLOs and error budgets for critical services • Lead major incident response as incident commander and facilitate postmortems • Design and implement disaster recovery plans, chaos engineering practices, and reliability testing • Lead foundational infrastructure patterns using Terraform and develop reusable modules • Architect and implement advanced Kubernetes patterns, including multi-tenancy, security policies, and advanced scheduling • Establish observability strategies using Datadog and Splunk for metrics, logging, and tracing • Establish CI/CD standards, pipeline-as-code, and progressive delivery practices • Drive FinOps initiatives to optimize cloud spending • Evaluate technologies and practices to improve operational efficiency • Provide technical leadership to a functional SRE team without direct reporting responsibilities • Mentor SREs, conduct architecture and design reviews, and lead technical training • Coordinate on-call schedules and reduce operational burden • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Security teams on reliability, zero-trust architecture, compliance, and feature delivery • Influence architectural decisions and represent SRE in strategic initiatives • Promote SRE culture and continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 7-10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or an equivalent field, with demonstrated technical leadership • Proven ability to lead technical teams and deliver complex projects • Expert-level AWS knowledge, including experience designing large-scale, multi-region architectures • Deep Kubernetes expertise, including advanced features, security, and production-scale operations • Mastery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including experience developing shared platforms and frameworks • Production experience with Python and/or Go • Extensive experience with Datadog and Splunk and implementing observability and monitoring solutions at scale • Deep understanding of CI/CD principles and experience implementing enterprise-grade pipelines • Proven experience leading major incidents and conducting effective postmortems • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences • Experience mentoring engineers and developing technical capabilities within teams • Previous technical leadership experience in SRE or Operational Excellence, including Lead, Staff, or similar roles • Financial services industry experience and understanding of regulatory requirements • Expert knowledge of compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, PCI DSS, and FINRA • Professional-level AWS certifications • Kubernetes certifications, including CKA, CKAD, or CKS • Experience implementing SRE practices in organizations with 500 or more engineers • Background in chaos engineering, game days, and reliability testing • Contributions to open-source projects with demonstrated community leadership • Experience implementing and managing service meshes • Experience speaking at conferences or publishing technical content • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; visa sponsorship is unavailable

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) open to all • Bonus program opportunity for non-sales positions • Reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection and a suitable home workspace for remote and hybrid positions • Necessary computer equipment provided

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