Lead Site Reliability Engineer: AWS Cloud & Automation

Selby Jennings; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will lead a team of SREs, drive incident response, and improve platform reliability and efficiency across engineering and operations.

The role focuses on automation, monitoring, and cost optimization, with opportunities to shape disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in a data-driven, cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, including both full-time employees and contractors.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Build and support monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure platform health and uptime.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency and software delivery.
• Lead incident response efforts, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term solutions.
• Partner with engineering teams to optimize performance, reliability, scalability, and cloud costs.
• Promote operational best practices across infrastructure and application environments.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.

Skills

Scripting and programming experience

Git

SQL

Python

DevOps

Cloud

Site Reliability Engineer

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Docker

Datadog

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will lead a team of SREs, drive incident response, and improve platform reliability and efficiency across engineering and operations.

The role focuses on automation, monitoring, and cost optimization, with opportunities to shape disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in a data-driven, cloud-first environment.