# Site Reliability Engineer 5

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $229,900 - $262,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking Site Reliability Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems

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

- Lead crisis management, deep-dive RCA, and define system-wide outage prevention strategies

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

- Establish organization-wide SLOs, driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance

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

- Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)

- At least 10 years of experience driving cross-organizational reliability strategy and defining multi-year technical roadmaps

- At least 8 years of experience in global cloud architecture, optimization, and financial or security governance across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP)

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master’s Degree

- 4+ years of experience defining and driving organization-wide IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices

- Expert in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)

- Proven success leading the integration of 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 (Zero Trust, Secrets Management) in cloud environments

- Demonstrated significant contribution to the open-source community or strategic internal platform innovation

- Proven track record of designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains

- Experience leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI/Headless AI for advanced Operations automation

- Hands-on familiarity with applying Generative AI/headless AI to enhance automation, code quality or operational workflow

- Exceptional strategic and executive-level communication skills to influence technology decisions across the C-suite and partner organizations

- Deep expertise in systems programming for designing and implementing production-grade platform services

**Salary Information:** The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are $229,900 - $262,400.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Architecture
- Cloud Optimization
- Financial Governance
- Security Governance
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Serverless
- Generative AI
- Headless AI
- SRE Principles
- Agile/Scrum
- Observability
- SLO Frameworks
- Zero Trust
- Secrets Management

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