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.