SRE Technical Lead

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

SRE
Technical
Lead
IAM

Job Details

SRE Technical Lead

Position summary

The Senior IT Technical Lead for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a preferred specialization in Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a hands-on, expert-level role. This individual is responsible for ensuring the operational excellence of critical production systems, with a particular focus on IAM infrastructure. This role is less about managing project timelines and resources, and more about creating innovative solutions to improve a mission critical service. The technical lead will drive automation, optimize performance, lead incident response from a technical standpoint, and act as a technical subject matter expert for systems.

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in IT, with significant time spent in a senior-level SRE or similar role.
  • Deep SRE and Systems Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience applying SRE principles to manage the reliability and scalability of enterprise-level systems. This includes cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure), microservices, containers (Kubernetes).
  • Automation and Tooling: Proven ability to write and implement code (e.g., Python) and leverage automation tools to eliminate manual toil and create scalable, self-healing systems. Responsible for building and maintaining internal tools that enhance infrastructure and operations.
  • Observability and Analysis: Expertise in implementing robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, ELK Stack). Able to analyze system metrics to proactively identify issues and drive data-backed technical decisions for performance tuning and capacity planning.

Desirable Requirements

  • IAM Specialization: Possesses extensive, hands-on experience with identity protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect) and technologies (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP, SSO). Is able to diagnose and solve the most complex IAM-related issues.
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Zafar Khan

Technical Recruiter

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