Lead Site Reliability Engineer — Cloud, Automation & SRE

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

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems across our cloud infrastructure. You will design resilient architectures and guide engineering teams in applying best practices for availability and observability.

This role requires deep expertise in software engineering, cloud services, and DevOps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of 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 systems across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Cloud architecture

Monitoring observability

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

Splunk

Grafana

New Relic

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems across our cloud infrastructure. You will design resilient architectures and guide engineering teams in applying best practices for availability and observability.

This role requires deep expertise in software engineering, cloud services, and DevOps.