Job Requisition ID #
25WD89935
Job Title: Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead our SRE team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, systems architecture, and operations, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance. As a Senior Manager, SRE, you will be responsible for leading the team that drives the reliability and availability of our services, influencing improvements in our infrastructure, and leading a team of talented engineers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the SRE team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support.
- Establish and drive best practices for the availability, performance, capacity, and incident response of production platforms, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and industry standards
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to design and implement robust systems and processes.
- Monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and addressing issues proactively.
- Implement and maintain automation tools and processes to streamline operations.
- Develop and maintain documentation, including runbooks, best practices, and standard operating procedures.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation and experimentation.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices, incorporating them into our SRE practices.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or engineering roles, with 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership and 2+ years of experience managing development teams
- Previously managed teams of engineers with ownership of high scale, production systems
- Strong knowledge of software engineering, systems architecture, and operations.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Skilled in big picture thinking and a willingness to learn and dive into unfamiliar systems and resolve complex and ambiguous issues both from a business and technical perspective
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
- Experienced in creating telemetry for the service using Splunk, New Relic, Datadog or their equivalents.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Understands what it takes to deliver scalable and secure solutions.
- Ability to define and drive technical vision and strategic direction for complex platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
- Experience working in fast-paced, agile development environments with a focus on iterative improvement and flexibility.
- Possesses excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Demonstrates proficiency in systems thinking to understand and address the interdependencies within complex systems.
- Experience with chaos engineering practices to proactively test and improve system resilience.
- Strong skills in resiliency engineering to design and implement systems that can withstand and recover from failures.
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Career growth and development opportunities.
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