Lead Site Reliability Engineer: Cloud & Automation

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will engineer cloud infrastructure on AWS, implement IaC with Terraform, and guide incident response with a strong DevOps mindset.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with software teams, and shape observability, security, and CI/CD practices to maintain high availability and regulatory compliance across our services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• 3+ years in a lead or senior technical position.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale production systems.
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient systems across cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure optimal system performance.
• Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SAST/DAST

Incident Mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Splunk

New Relic

X-Ray

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will engineer cloud infrastructure on AWS, implement IaC with Terraform, and guide incident response with a strong DevOps mindset.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with software teams, and shape observability, security, and CI/CD practices to maintain high availability and regulatory compliance across our services.