Global SRE Manager - Reliability, Automation & Growth

Fortive Corporation (SE); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 114,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Accruent seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team focused on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across cloud SaaS platforms. You will shape the SRE operating model, drive automation, and partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Support to deliver dependable customer experiences.

The role emphasizes leadership, incident management, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement, with a focus on measured service

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing technical workforce transitions, capability development, or progression of Systems Engineers into SRE roles.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale SaaS platforms in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles and operational excellence practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and observability.
• Experience leading incident management, problem management, disaster recovery, and resilience programmes.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and cloud security practices.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with the ability to explain technical risk and priorities to senior audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through change and drive cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed team of Site Reliability Engineers and develop structured development pathways.
• Define and execute the SRE strategy and roadmap focused on availability, scalability, resilience, and simplicity.
• Provide leadership during major incidents, drive root cause analyses and corrective actions.
• Partner with Cloud Operations, Engineering, Product, Security, and Support to align priorities with business goals.
• Advance security, governance, and continuous improvement through data-driven decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident management

Operational excellence

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

Job description

Accruent seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team focused on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across cloud SaaS platforms. You will shape the SRE operating model, drive automation, and partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Support to deliver dependable customer experiences.

The role emphasizes leadership, incident management, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement, with a focus on measured service