Overview
Remote
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
Site Reliability Engineer
Job Details
JOB Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Leader
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Full Time
About the Role - We are seeking a SRE Leader to architect and drive Site Reliability Engineering strategy across the financial services customers.
Key Responsibilities Include -
Strategic Leadership
- Define and execute the SRE strategy aligned with business goals and engineering priorities.
- Establish and evangelize SRE principles, best practices, and culture across engineering and product teams.
- Drive adoption of reliability-focused design patterns, automation, and observability across the organization.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders (Developers, Architects, Operations, Business teams) to define and adopt reliability engineering
Build-Side Reliability Initiatives
- Embed SRE practices early in the software development lifecycle to ensure reliability is designed into systems from the start.
- Partner with development teams to implement shift-left reliability testing, including automated resilience and chaos tests in CI/CD pipelines.
- Define golden paths for developers with pre-built reliability patterns, templates, and infrastructure-as-code modules.
- Drive build-time observability by integrating telemetry, logging, and tracing into application code during development.
- Champion performance benchmarking and capacity modeling during build phases to prevent scalability issues post-deployment.
- Collaborate with architects to enforce reliability-driven design reviews before major releases.
Operational Excellence
- Own the reliability, availability, and performance of critical services and infrastructure.
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Develop and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs to ensure service health and customer satisfaction.
Team Building & Mentorship
- Build, mentor, and scale a world-class SRE team with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and growth.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation within the team.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align reliability goals with product roadmaps.
Tooling & Automation
- Drive automation of operational tasks, deployments, and incident response.
- Lead efforts in observability, monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
- Evaluate and implement modern SRE tools and platforms to improve efficiency and reduce toil.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements in all reliability practices.
- Establish governance frameworks for change management, risk mitigation, and service continuity.
Qualifications
- 15-20 years of experience
- 8+ years in leadership roles managing large-scale SRE Programs
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), microservices, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in using Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool New Relic/Dynatrace for monitoring, logging, tracing and Splunk for Log monitoring.
- Expertise in observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Strong experience with incident response, chaos engineering, and reliability testing.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive organizational change.
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