Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Ready to lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms while shaping the future of Site Reliability Engineering?

As a Site Reliability Engineering Lead, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for Site Reliability Engineering initiatives across multiple product portfolios. You will lead a team of SREs responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence of mission-critical applications and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Define and drive SRE strategy, standards, best practices, and operational frameworks across engineering organizations.
• Partner with product and platform teams to improve application reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience.
• Establish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and post-incident review processes.
• Drive cloud modernization initiatives and support application migrations to Azure, AWS, and containerized environments.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Develop and implement observability strategies utilizing metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure platform adherence to enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on cloud-native and highly resilient application designs.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, cost management, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Establish engineering guardrails, governance controls, and deployment standards for production environments.
• Support organizational transformation toward DevOps and SRE practices.
• Manage operational risk and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize reliability improvements and platform investments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with product owners, engineering leaders, vendors, and business partners.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers.
• Conduct resource planning and support hiring, onboarding, and career development activities.
• Establish team objectives aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Promote accountability, innovation, and operational excellence within the team.
• Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for reliability engineering across the organization.
• Drive cross-team collaboration and alignment on strategic initiatives.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• Strong leadership experience managing technical engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering disciplines.
• Extensive experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, containerization, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong background in observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar technologies.
• Experience managing large-scale production environments with stringent availability requirements.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, networking, and cloud governance principles.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or C#.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and software delivery automation.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong documentation and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations.

Desired Skills

• Experience building and managing enterprise-scale observability platforms.
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and operational efficiency practices.
• Experience with secret management platforms such as HashiCorp Vault, Akeyless or cloud-native alternatives.
• Familiarity with Chaos Engineering and resilience testing.
• Experience supporting regulated environments and compliance frameworks.
• Experience leading cloud transformation and modernization programs.
• Agile and Lean delivery experience.
• Experience supporting global, distributed engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• 2+ years of leadership or people management experience leading engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related certifications preferred.
• Proven track record leading reliability and operational excellence initiatives in large-scale enterprise environments.

Salary U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.