SRE Manager

Position: SRE Manager

Location: 100% Remote

Duration:  3 Months + Contract to Hire( CTH )

Client: RB Global( We have SOW with this client )

Work Authorization:

SRE Manager to lead a team of reliability engineers responsible for the uptime, performance, and efficiency of the customer-facing platforms. You’ll set SLOs and error budgets, build great incident and change practices, and coach engineers to automate everything that can be automated.

Responsibilities

• Lead & grow the team:Hire, coach, and develop SREs; set goals and establish a blameless, data-driven culture.
• Own reliability strategy:Define and socialize SLOs/SLIs and error budgets with product/engineering; enforce guardrails and tradeoffs.
• Operate the platform:Oversee availability, latency, capacity planning, and change management across [AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform] and Kubernetes.
• Incident management:Run on-call and escalation programs (SEV1/2), coordinate response, and ensure high-quality, blameless postmortems with clear follow-ups.
• Observability:Standardize logs/metrics/traces and dashboards; reduce alert noise; drive adoption of APM/monitoring tools ([Datadog/Dynatrace/PrometheGrafana/New Relic]).
• Automation & resilience:Champion infra-as-code, CI/CD, chaos/game days, load testing, and toil reduction.
• Security & compliance partnership:Work with Security, Compliance, and Finance on least-privilege, secrets management, cost efficiency, and audit readiness.
• Stakeholder alignment:Partner with Product, App Eng, Data, and Support to prioritize reliability work and communicate risk/status to leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software/platform/reliability engineering, including 2–4 years leadingSRE/DevOps/Platform teams.
• Proven experience operating large-scale services on [AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform]with Kubernetes and containers.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on with IaC(Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/CircleCI/Azure DevOps), and one scripting language (Python/Go/Bash).
• Deep understanding of observability(metrics, logs, traces) and alerting best practices.
• Track record running on-callprograms and driving measurable reliability improvements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; comfortable presenting trade-offs and data to executives.