Site Reliability Engineer ; Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)
Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking
** Site Reliability Engineers
** who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.  
** The Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE)
** Technology division is responsible for enabling and evolving Capital One’s foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience and availability.  
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* What You’ll Do:

*** Drive architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems
* Spearhead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and elevate platform efficiency
* Lead crisis management, deep-dive RCA, and define system-wide outage prevention strategies
* Define and govern the secure, multi-cloud IaC strategy and maturity roadmap
* Establish organization-wide SLOs, driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance
* Serve as the primary technical mentor, scaling SRE talent and culture across engineering teams
* Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and Fin Ops strategy for core infrastructure  
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* Basic Qualifications:

*** Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
* At least 8 years of experience leading SRE or Dev Ops initiatives and defining technical roadmaps
* At least 8 years of experience in architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP)  
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* Preferred Qualifications:

*** Master’s Degree
* 4+ years of experience defining and driving IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices across the organization
* Experience working with 2 or more high-performance languages for building core platform tools and services
* Expert in managing and optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)
* Proven success leading and integrating SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments
* Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks
* Expertise in implementing comprehensive security and compliance governance (Zero Trust, Secrets Management) in cloud environments
* Demonstrated significant contribution to the open-source community or strategic internal platform innovation
* Proven track record of designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains
* Experience leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI/Headless AI for advanced Operations automation
* Exceptional technical and strategic communication skills to drive architectural consensus across organizations  
** At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1,*
* *** or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer*****).
** The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one…