Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Join our Credit Technology team as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll play a key role in drive operational excellence through technology, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration for the Personal Credit SRE & Ops team. This exciting opportunity will challenge you to work with cutting-edge technologies, including AI and emerging innovations, and collaborate closely with development teams to deliver embedded SRE solutions. As a vital link between QE, DevOps, Development, Infrastructure, and Support teams, you'll leverage your strong technical skills to solve complex problems and drive success across multiple components and technologies. If you're passionate about tackling new challenges and developing innovative solutions, we invite you to join our team and take your career to the next level.

Act as one of the final escalation points for critical outages and lead 24/7 incident response with rapid resolution of customer-impacting issues

Lead strategic direction and continuous improvement initiatives across Credit Technology

Manage cross-functional teams and stakeholders to execute upgrade and operational change management

Oversee end-to-end reliability of the ecosystem (hardware, software, network) ensuring 99.9% availability

Generate performance metrics (SLOs/SLAs/SLIs) and maintain regulatory compliance and security standards

Serve as primary relationship owner for vendor services, maintenance, and internal technology teams

Identify, design, write and test automation procedures using AI, Ansible and other relevant technologies

Support applications running on many platforms including OpenShift and distributed systems

Implement Chaos Engineering experiments and Disaster Recovery procedures to test and validate system resilience and reliability

Implement monitoring and alerting, anomaly detection and reliability testing for applications in scope

What do you need to succeed? To be successful in this role, you will need:

Must have:

5-7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or a Cloud Developer

Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Good understanding of Kubernetes and Cloud working knowledge with experience and understanding of CICD pipeline and DevOps / Agile Methodology

Decent knowledge of the following SRE practices and technologies: Python, YAML, Shell scripting, OpenShift, Linux, MongoDB, Dynatrace, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Moog, Splunk, Elastic, Ansible, Grafana, Chaos Engineering, MQ, Kafka

Perform production support role, including off-hours support

Excellent communication skills

• Experience in the context of SRE and/or Application Development, Test Automation teams

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.

Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.

Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

A world-class training program in financial services

Flexible work/life balance options.

Opportunities to do challenging work.

Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

Opportunities to building close relationships with clients.

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