Manager - Site Reliability Engineer
Leads a team responsible for internal developer platforms, SRE tooling, automation, and production reliability in cloud environments. Requires people-management experience, strong security and infrastructure expertise, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and rollout of an internal developer platform spanning CI/CD, tooling, infrastructure-as-code integrations, and modernization efforts.
- Enhance fleet-management automation and build features for the infrastructure platform.
- Lead initiatives that improve engineer productivity by identifying and mitigating development-flow bottlenecks.
- Mentor, manage, and lead software engineers and site reliability engineers.
- Triage and troubleshoot complex production issues to maintain reliability and performance.
- Partner with stakeholders to balance reliability, security, and delivery velocity.
- Partner with recruiting and people operations to hire and retain engineering talent.
- Monitor vulnerability scanning, security posture, cloud spend, RPO, RTO, and operational toil, and ensure projects improve these metrics.
- Support a 24x7 online environment through an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing software engineering or SRE teams, ideally in a cloud-native environment.
- Proven experience building and scaling internal developer platforms using a platform-as-product mindset.
- Experience leading teams that build automated tooling for CI/CD orchestration, Kubernetes operators, or self-service infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience replacing manual, toil-heavy operations with automated, code-driven workflows in high-scale cloud production environments.
- Experience managing large-scale production Java/Tomcat and containerized services in AWS or another cloud provider.
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.
- Strong leadership, communication, project management, and security skills.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with AWS EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, and RDS.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, cloud-native platforms, fleet management, and developer productivity engineering.
Compensation and Benefits
- Benefits include well-being support, social-impact opportunities, talent development, and community connection.
Skills
CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Kubernetes, AWS, Java, Tomcat, Linux, Os Hardening, Networking, Ip Protocols, Amazon Ec2, Amazon Ecs, Amazon Kms, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Rds
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