Job Description
Our client is a growing technology-driven organization in the financial services space that is modernizing a traditionally legacy-heavy industry through cloud technology, automation, data, and AI.
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They are looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to take a hands-on leadership role in building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure. This person will lead a team of SREs while also remaining technically involved in infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
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This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the reliability and scalability of a modern AWS environment while helping establish strong engineering and operational practices.
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What You'll Do
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- Lead a team of SREs, including full-time employees and contractors
- Assign technical work, review pull requests, and provide technical guidance and feedback
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in AWS
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboarding solutions
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Terragrunt
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability and developer productivity
- Support and enhance Kubernetes-based environments and containerized workloads
- Implement and manage Argo CD and Argo Workflows for application and workflow orchestration
- Respond to production incidents, lead root cause analysis, and implement long-term solutions
- Identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
- Partner with software engineering and other technical teams to improve infrastructure and developer workflows
- Establish and maintain disaster recovery strategies and processes
- Promote infrastructure, security, automation, and operational best practices across engineering
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What We're Looking For
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Required Qualifications
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as EKS, Fargate, and Aurora
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and related tooling/plugins
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
- Experience with Argo CD and Argo Workflows
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, particularly with GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of Docker and containerization
- Experience with cloud infrastructure security and compliance
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms
- Strong scripting/programming experience
- Experience with database management
- Proficiency with Git/version control
- Experience with production incident management and troubleshooting
- Previous experience leading or mentoring technical engineers
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Preferred Qualifications
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- Experience with Datadog
- Experience with Cloudflare
- Experience implementing advanced AWS security capabilities such as GuardDuty and Security Hub
- Experience developing and maintaining disaster recovery strategies
- Experience with workflow automation platforms such as Camunda
- Experience within mortgage, lending, banking, or financial services
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Developer/DevOps Engineer or Associate-level certifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
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What You'll Get
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- Competitive base salary and performance-based compensation
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) with company matching
- Opportunities for career growth as the organization scales
- Collaborative, technology-focused engineering environment
- Generous PTO and additional employee perks
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This is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity for an SRE who enjoys building reliable cloud infrastructure, improving engineering practices, and leading a team while remaining close to the technology.