Senior SRE Lead: Reliability & Automation

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth opportunities

Benefits coverage

Pension plan (defined benefit)

Flexible hybrid work environment

Generous time off

Job summary

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to enhance reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency across a broad portfolio of applications and data platforms. You will own SLAs, drive incident response, and spearhead automation and observability initiatives while partnering with Product, Data Enablement, and Technology Services teams.

The role emphasizes leadership without direct reporting authority, enterprise‑level governance, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, production engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms and enterprise systems.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead cross‑team initiatives without direct reporting authority.
• Experience with observability, incident management, capacity and performance engineering, disaster recovery, automation.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve reliability and operational efficiency of a broad portfolio of applications, data pipelines, platforms, and services.
• Define and govern Service Level Availability (SLAs) and related reliability metrics.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis across cross‑service incidents.
• Design and implement or direct monitoring, observability, automation, and operational support tooling.
• Lead portfolio‑level capacity, performance, resilience, and recovery analysis and influence reliability priorities.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Dynatrace

Job description

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to enhance reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency across a broad portfolio of applications and data platforms. You will own SLAs, drive incident response, and spearhead automation and observability initiatives while partnering with Product, Data Enablement, and Technology Services teams.

The role emphasizes leadership without direct reporting authority, enterprise‑level governance, and collaboration with