Global Reliability Leader: AI Ops & Incident Response

Lam Research; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Lam Research is seeking a Senior Manager of Reliability Engineering & AI Ops to lead a global team responsible for keeping critical infrastructure available and recoverable across multi-cloud and on‑prem environments.

You’ll define reliability strategy, own incident management and DR programs, and drive AI-assisted automation to reduce outages while guiding cross-functional teams across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 10 years of related experience; or a Master's degree with 8 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading or mentoring a reliability or operations team and setting technical direction.
• Proven incident command on major outages, plus ownership of a postmortem process.
• Strong background in disaster recovery planning across Azure, AWS, GCP, and core infrastructure platforms, including restore validation, failover testing, recovery-objective definition, and corrective action tracking after DR exercises or production incidents.
• Hands-on ownership of an incident management and paging platform at scale, such as PagerDuty.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance trending, utilization analysis, and infrastructure demand forecasting for globally distributed production environments across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises platforms.
• Track record of defining and defending service level objectives and error budgets in production.
• Working depth in observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or equivalent), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and Python or Go.
• Practical experience applying AI-assisted engineering and operations tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or enterprise LLM platforms to improve troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and engineering productivity across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid infrastructure, with clear guardrails for security, privacy, auditability, and production safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop the reliability engineering team, owning on-call health while staying technically hands-on.
• Set the reliability strategy: define the service level objective program, publish an error-budget policy, and drive adoption across platform and service teams.
• Build and run a follow-the-sun on-call and response model across six regions, with clean handoffs and one consistent set of runbooks and severity definitions worldwide.
• Own the incident management and paging platform end to end, including services, schedules, escalation policies, and routing, configured as code and tuned so alerts fire on real risk rather than noise.
• Serve as incident commander on major incidents, own executive and stakeholder communications, and lead blameless postmortems with tracked follow-up.
• Own disaster recovery strategy and execution across Azure, AWS, GCP, and core infrastructure platforms, including service-tier recovery objectives, backup and restore validation, failover readiness, DR certification, runbook governance, and recurring exercises measured against RTO and RPO targets.
• Lead capacity planning and performance engineering across Azure, AWS, GCP, compute, storage, network, and HPC platforms, using demand forecasting, utilization trends, growth modeling, and automation to prevent capacity risk and reduce manual operational work.
• Define and drive AI Ops requirements for reliability engineering across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and LLM-based operational workflows for incident triage, runbook generation, knowledge retrieval, root-cause analysis, and safe remediation recommendations.
• This is a full-time role on a standard schedule, with participation in a global on-call rotation

Skills

Incident command

Reliability engineering

AI Ops

Observability tooling

Infrastructure as code

Python or Go

PagerDuty

Leadership

Capacity planning

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

Terraform

Microsoft Copilot

GitHub Copilot

LLM platforms

Job description

Lam Research is seeking a Senior Manager of Reliability Engineering & AI Ops to lead a global team responsible for keeping critical infrastructure available and recoverable across multi-cloud and on‑prem environments.

You’ll define reliability strategy, own incident management and DR programs, and drive AI-assisted automation to reduce outages while guiding cross-functional teams across Azure, AWS, and GCP.