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.