# Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $197,300 - $225,100 for McLean, VA and $179,400 - $204,700 for Richmond, VA
**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 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 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 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:**

- Master’s Degree

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

- Experience working with 2 or more high-performance languages for building core platform tools and services

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

- 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 (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

- Exceptional technical and strategic communication skills to drive architectural consensus across organizations

**Salary Information:** The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 Richmond, VA: $179,400 - $204,700

**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 Operations
- Resilience Engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering
- DevOps
- Cloud Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP)
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- IaC/CI/CD Strategies
- High-performance Languages
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud-native Architectures
- Kubernetes
- Serverless
- Agile/Scrum Development
- Observability
- SLO Frameworks
- Security Governance
- Open-source Community
- Generative AI/Headless AI

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