Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Ready to lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms while shaping the future of Site Reliability Engineering?

Would you like to mentor high-performing engineers, drive cloud modernization, and influence enterprise-wide engineering practices in a highly collaborative environment?

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The CIC (Insurance Core Services) team is responsible for establishing and driving reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence standards across Insurance technology platforms. The team partners closely with application, infrastructure, database, and cloud engineering teams to improve platform availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.

ICS leads strategic initiatives including SLO/SLI implementation, observability platform adoption, cloud modernization, operational readiness reviews, performance engineering, and reliability automation. The team also develops reusable engineering frameworks, standards, and best practices that enable product teams to build and operate highly reliable cloud-native services at scale.

As a Site Reliability Engineering Lead, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for Site Reliability Engineering initiatives across multiple product portfolios. You will lead a team of SREs responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence of mission-critical applications and platforms.

The SRE Lead will partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to drive cloud modernization, operational maturity, observability excellence, automation, and continuous improvement. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with people leadership, mentoring, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Define and drive SRE strategy, standards, best practices, and operational frameworks across engineering organizations.
• Partner with product and platform teams to improve application reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience.
• Establish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and post-incident review processes.
• Drive cloud modernization initiatives and support application migrations to Azure, AWS, and containerized environments.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, Git Hub, Git Lab, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Develop and implement observability strategies utilizing metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure platform adherence to enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on cloud-native and highly resilient application designs.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, cost management, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Establish engineering guardrails, governance…