Secure Reliability Engineering Manager

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We are seeking an experienced Secure Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to lead the reliability, resilience, and secure operation of a sovereign cloud platform supporting regulated and high-trust workloads. This role is responsible for ensuring that availability, performance, and security are engineered into the platform by design, using Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud-native services, and open-source technologies.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical credibility in cloud reliability engineering, strong people leadership, and a security-first mindset—treating security, compliance, and sovereignty as core reliability requirements, not afterthoughts.

• Own the reliability, availability, and resilience of sovereign cloud platforms supporting regulated workloads across hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign variants)

• Design and enforce secure information and failure boundaries, including:

• Network segmentation and fault isolation

• Identity, access, and privilege separation

• Data residency, encryption, and key management controls

• Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets aligned with sovereign and regulatory requirements

• Partner with Security, Architecture, and Compliance teams to ensure reliability designs meet sovereignty, regulatory, and contractual obligations

• Lead development and governance of Terraform-based IaC frameworks with reliability and security baked in

• Establish reusable modules, standards, and pipelines for:

• Cloud-native services (compute, storage, networking, identity)

• Built-in resilience patterns (multi-zone, multi-region, failover)

• Embedded security and compliance controls

• Drive automation for:

• Provisioning and configuration

• Drift detection and remediation

• Capacity management and lifecycle operations

• Build and operate reliability-focused CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services

• Lead operational practices including:

• Monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting

• Incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews

• Change, release, and reliability risk management

• Reduce toil through automation while maintaining strict security and change controls

• Implement security-by-default and resilience-by-design practices across all environments

• Ensure operational alignment with frameworks such as:

• Zero Trust architecture

• NIST, ISO, SOC, or equivalent regulatory standards

• Support audits and assessments by delivering traceable, code-driven controls, operational evidence, and reliability metrics

• Treat compliance gaps, security weaknesses, and reliability risks as production-impacting issues

• Govern and operate cloud-native and open-source platforms such as:

• Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, Vault, Open Policy Agent

• Ensure platforms are secure, observable, resilient, and supportable

• Evaluate emerging technologies that improve reliability, security posture, and operational efficiency

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Secure Reliability Engineers

• Establish an SRE culture focused on:

• Blameless incident response

• Continuous improvement

• Strong operational ownership

• Define clear roadmaps, reliability goals, and success metrics aligned with business and sovereign requirements

• 10 years of experience in SRE, Dev Ops, Cloud…