Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Engineering Enablement; Remote

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will architect, build, and evolve the developer experience for Meraki's Cloud Engineering teams. You will work within a team distributed across the US and UK and collaborate with other teams across SRE and Cloud Engineering. Your decisions will shape the day to day operations of Meraki's cloud, and enable our engineers to easily, safely, and confidently experiment on and build great products!

• Lead the design and evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying our cloud applications.
• Take the lead on complex problem resolution and debugging of internal and vendor-supplied tools.
• Influence and drive operational excellence within the organization.
• Learn and understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to design systems that work for them.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmaps, reporting on productivity gains and platform health to the SVP level.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, perform blameless postmortems, and champion sustainable on-call practices across the organization.

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience
• Have a software development background with 5+ years experience coding with languages like Ruby or Python.
• Rapid technical adoption experience, evaluating and adopting new technologies with quick turnaround to address critical production gaps or security vulnerabilities.
• Experience mentoring and providing technical oversight for a team
• Experience with systems at scale, managing and operating distributed systems at a scale of 1,000+ nodes or high-concurrency environments with an owner/operator mindset.
• Automation experience in configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation.
• Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions.

• Experience in a hybrid cloud environment (we deploy to bare metal, container orchestration, and managed cloud services).
• Experience building and supporting tools for a quickly growing engineering organization (2,000+ and growing).
• Background in containerization.
• Familiarity with DORA and SPACE published Dev Ops measurement metrics.
• Believe that development and operations are best carried out in close co-operation; all our teams are developers, and own what they create.