Cloud Operations and SRE Team Lead

Siemens Digital Industries Software; Troy (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Digital Industries Software in the USA seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team responsible for reliability, scalability, and performance of core AWS-native services, Kubernetes platforms, and observability stacks.

You will drive incident management, automation, IaC, and on-call coordination with enterprise Incident Response, while mentoring engineers and promoting blameless post-mortems and security best practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, or DevOps/SRE roles, with leadership experience.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience deploying and operating production workloads using managed services and compute options.
• Proven Kubernetes/EKS expertise including upgrades, networking, and scaling.
• Experience designing and maturing Incident Management frameworks in a complex enterprise.
• Strong OpenTelemetry instrumentation, CloudWatch and Datadog monitoring and alerting.
• Proficient with enterprise incident tooling (PagerDuty) and on-call processes.
• Solid IaC experience with Terraform and CloudFormation; scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Advocate for SRE principles, blameless post-mortems, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing SRE and Cloud Operations team.
• Architecture & Reliability: Own reliability, availability, and performance of applications in AWS and container workloads.
• Kubernetes & Container Ops: Collaborate to ensure reliability and capacity for Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Incident Management & Response: Design and refine incident processes, runbooks, SLAs/SLOs, and on-call rotations.
• Cross-Functional Incident Integration: Interface between engineering teams and the corporate Incident Response Team.
• Observability & Monitoring: Evolve telemetry using OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and Datadog for metrics and traces.
• IaC & Automation: Drive provisioning, deployments, and toil reduction with IaC tooling.

Skills

SRE Leadership

AWS

Kubernetes

Incident Mgmt

Observability

PagerDuty

IaC Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python/Bash/Go

Security Practices

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

CloudWatch

Kubernetes (EKS)

PagerDuty

Terraform

Job description

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.

What you’ll bring

Whether simulating the aerodynamics of an F1 racing car or the noise generated by a jet engine Simcenter X customers need on-demand super-computer resources, data management, and access to an unparalleled portfolio of simulation tools. We are changing the way our customers run and interact with multi-physics high fidelity simulations and our SRE Engineers play a meaningful role in this transformation. Your contributions will impact the way designers and engineers develop products.

We are looking for a hands‑on leader with expertise in all aspects Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud Operations to lead a team and to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core applications and cloud infrastructure.

In this role, you will lead a talented team of engineers while acting as the technical authority for operations of our AWS native services, Kubernetes platforms, and enterprise observability stacks. Beyond technical leadership, you will spearhead the design and governance of our Incident Management processes, ensuring seamless integration between our on‑call operations and the wider corporate Incident Response Team. You will balance hands‑on technical guidance with strategic execution, championing SRE best practices, automation, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the USA. Qualified Applicants will not require employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in USA.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing SRE and Cloud Operations team. Foster a culture of automation, blameless post‑mortems, and proactive engineering.
• Architecture & Reliability: Own the reliability, availability, and performance of applications hosted in AWS. Ensure robust design across both AWS native managed services and containerized workloads.
• Kubernetes & Container Operations: Collaborate across multiple teams to ensure the reliability, capacity management, of our Kubernetes based deployments.
• Incident Management & Response Strategy: Formulate, implement, and continuously refine comprehensive Incident Management processes, frameworks, and runbooks. Establish clear escalation paths, SLA/SLO tracking, and on‑call rotations.
• Cross‑Functional Incident Integration: Act as the operational bridge between engineering teams and the wider corporate Incident Response Team. Ensure tight integration of alerting, tooling (e.g., PagerDuty), and communication channels during critical incidents.
• Observability & Monitoring: Maintain and evolve our telemetry posture utilizing AWS CloudWatch, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) standard, and Datadog for comprehensive metrics, APM, logs, and traces.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the automation of infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and toil reduction to minimize manual operational overhead.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 4+ years in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, or DevOps/SRE roles, with at least 2–3 years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity.
• AWS Cloud Expertise: Deep hands‑on experience, deploying, and operating production workloads in AWS, leveraging both managed services (e.g., DynamoDB, S3, IAM, VPC) and compute offerings.
• Kubernetes & EKS: Proven expertise in managing production‑grade Kubernetes environments using Amazon EKS, including cluster upgrades, networking, and scaling.
• Incident Management Leadership: Demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and maturing Incident Management frameworks in a complex enterprise environment. Experience collaborating closely with centralized or wider corporate Incident Response teams during high‑severity events.
• Observability Mastery: Hands‑on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation, AWS CloudWatch, and Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
• Operational Tooling: Strong background working with enterprise incident response and on‑call platforms like PagerDuty.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in modern IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Mindset: Strong advocate for SRE principles, blameless post‑mortems, and robust security practices. Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge technical engineering teams and enterprise‑wide stakeholders.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the USA. Qualified Applicants will not require employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in USA.

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We’re dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

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