Lead Site Reliability Engineer: Cloud, Automation & Resilience

Federal Reserve; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will lead incident response, design resilient cloud architectures on AWS, and advance automation and observability across pipelines.

The role requires 7+ years in SRE/DevOps, 3+ years in a lead role, and strong collaboration with software teams to embed best practices and security controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• GenAI based Applications knowledge a plus.
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems.

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 Terraform.
• Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain internal tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement reliability best practices.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

SRE

DevOps

Incident management

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes/ECS

AWS

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Datadog

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will lead incident response, design resilient cloud architectures on AWS, and advance automation and observability across pipelines.

The role requires 7+ years in SRE/DevOps, 3+ years in a lead role, and strong collaboration with software teams to embed best practices and security controls.