# Lead Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Mattermost](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mattermost)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $145k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Grafana, Prometheus, GCP, Azure, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Incident Management, Disaster Recovery, Nist 800-53
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Leads the architecture, reliability, observability, and operational excellence of secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure for a mission-critical collaboration platform. Requires 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure, with expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and regulated environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the site reliability engineering function, aligning infrastructure initiatives with product and business goals.
- Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of production-grade containerized workloads, infrastructure as code, and compliant cloud environments for regulated domains such as FedRAMP and DoD.
- Establish and evolve observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks for performance, reliability, and capacity planning at scale.
- Drive incident management processes, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and systemic reliability improvements.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to meet data sovereignty, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Champion automation and operational excellence to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and scale operations.
- Oversee cloud cost management and capacity planning while meeting performance targets.
- Build and maintain a developer platform that enables fast, secure software delivery and improves application stability in production.
- Mentor and coach SRE team members.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Expertise in container orchestration platforms, ideally Kubernetes.
- Extensive infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform.
- Strong cloud platform background, ideally AWS.
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization strategies.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills for distributed systems.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language for automation.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional influence skills.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams in a remote-first environment.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Grafana and Prometheus.
- Experience designing high-availability, disaster recovery, and scaling architectures.
- Exposure to Google Cloud and Azure.
- Leadership experience in defense, finance, or critical infrastructure.
- Experience with U.S. federal compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, DoD ATO, and NIST 800-53.
- Experience preparing and supporting software offerings through AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace, or Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Open-source contributions in reliability, DevOps, or infrastructure tooling.
- Cloud infrastructure, reliability, or DevOps certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

## Compensation
- Salary range: **$145,000–$200,000**

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