Site reliability Lead Engineer

Summary

A senior technical leader responsible for owning a reliability strategy, leading an SRE team, and ensuring the operational health, scalability, and availability of services. Combines hands-on engineering, automation, and people leadership to drive reliability across the organization.

• Define SRE strategy, process frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budget policies; embed reliability into the SDLC.
• Promote a culture of service ownership and maintain strong cross-team feedback loops.

• Oversee monitoring and maintenance to meet SLAs and uptime targets.
• Drive capacity planning and forecasting to ensure performance at scale.
• Use data and metrics to prioritize reliability investments and tradeoffs.

• Lead automation efforts to eliminate operational toil and streamline runbooks.
• Oversee Infrastructure as Code practices (for example Terraform, Cloud Formation) and configuration management.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safer, faster releases.

• Lead incident response and communications during outages.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are executed.
• Govern change control to ensure safe, tested production deployments.

• Partner with engineering, architecture, and product teams to bake reliability into designs and roadmaps.
• Translate technical issues and tradeoffs for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Hire, mentor, and develop SRE engineers; set team goals and a roadmap.
• Lead calmly and effectively under pressure during critical incidents and drive customer focused decisions.

Technical

• Proven SRE/Dev Ops/infrastructure experience (typically 6 years) with leadership experience (about 2 3 years).
• Strong cloud experience (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Expertise with IaC and automation tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, or similar).
• Proficient in scripting and programming for automation (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Deep experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog, etc.).

• Strong people leadership and coaching skills with proven stakeholder communication.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical thinking, and adaptability.
• Strategic mindset balancing engineering excellence with business priorities.

• A measurable reliability roadmap aligned to business goals.
• Reduced operational toil through automation and improved runbooks.
• Clear SLIs, SLOs and established error budget governance.
• A high performing SRE team with documented processes for incident and change management.