Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and operation of highly available, scalable production systems across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Define and own SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, monitoring, and alerting strategies; drive SLI/SLO adoption across teams.
• Lead incident response, post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and remediation; implement preventative measures.
• Build and maintain observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry).
• Architect and operate CI/CD and deployment platforms (ArgoCD, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) enabling safe, automated rollouts (canary, blue/green, feature flags).
• Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform tooling for developers (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE/AKS, service meshes, operators).
• Drive Infrastructure as Code practices (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and manage infrastructure lifecycle, drift detection, and compliance.
• Automate operational runbooks, remediation, capacity planning, and routine maintenance to minimize manual toil.
• Own reliability-related security practices: secrets management, IAM, network policies, vulnerability scanning, and secure configurations.
• Mentor and grow SRE and platform engineers; lead hiring, performance reviews, and career development.
• Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to influence design decisions for fault tolerance and operability.
• Manage on-call rotations, escalation policies, and ensure adequate coverage; coordinate across teams during major incidents.
• Drive cost optimization, observability of cloud spend, and capacity forecasting.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in site reliability, platform, or DevOps engineering roles with progressive leadership responsibility.
• Proven experience operating production distributed systems at scale on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container ecosystems; experience running large clusters and multi-cluster environments.
• Strong IaC experience (Terraform required; CloudFormation/Pulumi a plus).
• Extensive experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Open Telemetry) and incident management platforms (PagerDuty, Ops genie).
• Solid software engineering skills (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and reliability engineering.
• Demonstrated experience setting and enforcing SLOs/SLIs and reducing MTTR through engineering practices.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and deployment strategies (Argo CD, Spinnaker, Flux, Git Ops).
• Strong systems, networking, and security fundamentals.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills; proven ability to influence across orgs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent