Secure Reliability Engineering Manager

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Overview

We are seeking an experienced Secure Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to lead the reliability, resilience, and secure operation of a sovereign cloud platform supporting regulated and high-trust workloads. This role is responsible for ensuring that availability, performance, and security are engineered into the platform by design, using Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud-native services, and open-source technologies.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical credibility in cloud reliability engineering, strong people leadership, and a security-first mindset-treating security, compliance, and sovereignty as core reliability requirements, not afterthoughts.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Architecture

• Own the reliability, availability, and resilience of sovereign cloud platforms supporting regulated workloads across hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and sovereign variants)
• Design and enforce secure information and failure boundaries, including:
• Network segmentation and fault isolation
• Identity, access, and privilege separation
• Data residency, encryption, and key management controls
• Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets aligned with sovereign and regulatory requirements
• Partner with Security, Architecture, and Compliance teams to ensure reliability designs meet sovereignty, regulatory, and contractual obligations

Infrastructure as Code & Reliability Automation

• Lead development and governance of Terraform-based IaC frameworks with reliability and security baked in
• Establish reusable modules, standards, and pipelines for:
• Cloud-native services (compute, storage, networking, identity)
• Built-in resilience patterns (multi-zone, multi-region, failover)
• Embedded security and compliance controls
• Drive automation for:
• Provisioning and configuration
• Drift detection and remediation
• Capacity management and lifecycle operations

Secure SRE Operations

• Build and operate reliability-focused CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services
• Lead operational practices including:
• Monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Change, release, and reliability risk management
• Reduce toil through automation while maintaining strict security and change controls

Security, Compliance & Operational Assurance

• Implement security-by-default and resilience-by-design practices across all environments
• Ensure operational alignment with frameworks such as:
• Zero Trust architecture
• NIST, ISO, SOC, or equivalent regulatory standards
• Support audits and assessments by delivering traceable, code-driven controls, operational evidence, and reliability metrics
• Treat compliance gaps, security weaknesses, and reliability risks as production-impacting issues

Cloud-Native & Open-Source Technologies

• Govern and operate cloud-native and open-source platforms such as:
• Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, Vault, Open Policy Agent
• Ensure platforms are secure, observable, resilient, and supportable
• Evaluate emerging technologies that improve reliability, security posture, and operational efficiency

People Leadership & Reliability Culture

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Secure Reliability Engineers
• Establish an SRE culture focused on:
• Blameless incident response
• Continuous improvement
• Strong operational ownership
• Define clear roadmaps, reliability goals, and success metrics aligned with business and sovereign requirements

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering
• 4+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform in production, regulated environments
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Proven experience designing highly available, secure, and isolated cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of:
• Cloud security fundamentals (IAM, encryption, network security, secrets management)
• Reliability engineering concepts (SLOs, error budgets, incident management)
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and automation tooling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting sovereign, government, or highly regulated environments
• Kubernetes platform reliability experience in security-sensitive contexts
• Familiarity with policy-as-code, compliance-as-code, and reliability-as-code approaches
• Cloud security, SRE, or DevOps certifications (AWS, Azure, CKA, Terraform Associate, etc.)

Experience working closely with GRC, legal, audit, and compliance stakeholders

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Requisition ID: 446713 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Requisition ID: 446713

Posted Date: Feb 4, 2026

Work Area: Software-Design and Development

Career Status: Management

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Expected Travel: 0 - 10%

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