# Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: Riverwoods, IL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $179,400 - $204,700
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer 4 to join our Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) team at Capital One. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of a team that drives a major transformation within Capital One, focusing on enabling and evolving the company's foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience, and availability.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building and pioneering in the technology space, with a passion for solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment.

Key responsibilities include:

- Driving architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems

- Spearheading strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and elevate platform efficiency

- Leading crisis management, deep-dive root cause analysis, and defining system-wide outage prevention strategies

- Defining and governing the secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy and maturity roadmap

- Establishing organization-wide Service Level Objectives (SLOs), driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance

- Serving as the primary technical mentor, scaling SRE talent and culture across engineering teams

- Owning and implementing proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field

- At least 8 years of experience leading SRE or DevOps initiatives and defining technical roadmaps

- At least 8 years of experience in architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP)

Preferred qualifications include:

- Master's Degree

- Experience defining and driving IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices across the organization

- Expertise in managing and optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

- Proven success leading and integrating SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments

- Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks

- Expertise in implementing comprehensive security and compliance governance in cloud environments

In terms of compensation, the minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are $179,400 - $204,700.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Operations
- Resilience Engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering
- DevOps
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Observability
- Connectivity
- Resilience
- Availability

### Nice to have
- IaC
- CI/CD
- Cloud-Native Architectures
- Kubernetes
- Serverless
- Generative AI
- Headless AI
- Zero Trust
- Secrets Management

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