Director, Site Reliability Engineering (Remote)

US Foods; Rosemont (IL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food service industry is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a high-performing team responsible for the resilience and performance of digital platforms. This fully remote role requires expertise in modern architecture, Kubernetes, and observability practices, ensuring reliable digital experiences for customers. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of cloud-native infrastructure.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Life Insurance

Qualifications

• 7+ years in site reliability or infrastructure engineering, with 3 years in leadership.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and infrastructure as code tools.
• Experience with observability platforms like New Relic.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute SRE strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Oversee design and maintenance of scalable infrastructure.
• Drive operational excellence through incident management.

Skills

Leadership

Incident Management

Kubernetes

Microservices

Cloud-native Infrastructure

Observability

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related equivalent work experience

Tools

New Relic

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Director, Site Reliability Engineering (Remote)

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The Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), will lead a high-performing team responsible for the resilience, scalability, and performance of our digital platforms. This leader will bring deep technical expertise in modern architecture patterns, infrastructure as code (IaC), observability best practices, and the disciplined processes required for a world-class SRE function. The role is instrumental in ensuring reliable, efficient, and secure digital experiences for our customers.

Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Director Site Reliability position is completely remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories. This position may require up to 20% travel.

Responsibilities

SRE Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and execute the SRE strategy aligned with digital architecture goals and business objectives.
• Build and lead a team of SREs, fostering a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive operational excellence through disciplined incident management, blameless post-mortems, and service reviews.
• Partner closely with application, platform, and security engineering teams to enable resilient system design.
  
  

Technology & Engineering Execution

• Oversee the design and maintenance of scalable infrastructure, leveraging Kubernetes, microservices, and infrastructure as code.
• Ensure high availability and performance of Single Page Applications (SPAs), APIs, and backend services.
• Supports efforts in CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and capacity planning.
• Drive proactive performance tuning and failure scenario planning using real-world chaos engineering practices.
  
  

Observability & Incident Management

• Champion best-in-class observability using tools such as New Relic for monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
• Define and manage service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Continuously evolve telemetry and logging strategies to increase system transparency and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).
  
  

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, and Security teams to align SRE practices with business needs.
• Communicate reliability trade-offs and performance insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to maintain tooling and operational readiness.
  
  

SUPERVISION:

• Supervision of 12-14 site reliability engineers and support analysts.
• Supervision of third-party consultants
  
  

RELATIONSHIPS

• Internal: Regular interactions with business and technical leaders across the organization to communicate a vision for what is possible and align to business objectives.
• External: Regular interactions with technology partners and contract vendors will be required as a key part of this role.
  
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Remote: This role is fully remote, and the associate is expected to perform assigned responsibilities from a home-based environment.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and incident management skills to drive high-performance engineering culture and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven expertise in Kubernetes, microservices, and SPA-based architecture, with a strong foundation in cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace), distributed tracing, and real-time monitoring.
• Deep understanding of data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka), NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), and event-driven architecture.
  
  

EDUCATION

• BS/BA in computer science OR related equivalent work experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the foodservice distribution, wholesale, or supply chain industry with a deep understanding of product data challenges.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering, automated runbooks, and site reliability maturity models.
• Certifications in Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace).
• Experience leveraging Generative AI for automation and enhanced observability workflows.
  
  

This role will also receive annual incentive plan bonus.

Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.

To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state minimum wage thresholds). The expected base rate for this role is between

$110,000 - $180,000

• EOE Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Services

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