Lead SRE Architect: Multi-Region AWS, Kubernetes & FinOps

Empower Retirement; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower Retirement is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across our financial services platform. You will lead SREs, set standards, and guide infrastructure strategy across AWS multi-region deployments.

You will establish SLOs, manage incident response, build disaster recovery, implement Terraform modules, Kubernetes patterns, observability with Datadog and Splunk, and advance CI/CD and FinOps while mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7–10 years of Site Reliability Engineering with leadership.
• Strong AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform) expertise.
• Production experience with Python and/or Go.
• Proven incident management and postmortem leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives across teams.
• Define SRE best practices, tools, and standards.
• Architect multi-region AWS infrastructure for reliability and cost.
• Establish SLOs and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead major incidents and coordinate postmortems.
• Design disaster recovery, chaos experiments, and testing.
• Develop foundational infrastructure patterns with Terraform.
• Advance Kubernetes patterns and security practices.
• Build observability with Datadog and Splunk.
• Lead CI/CD standards and pipeline-as-code.
• Drive FinOps and cloud spend optimization.
• Mentor SREs and lead architecture reviews.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

Datadog

Splunk

CI/CD

Incident response

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Datadog

Splunk

AWS

Job description

Empower Retirement is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across our financial services platform. You will lead SREs, set standards, and guide infrastructure strategy across AWS multi-region deployments.

You will establish SLOs, manage incident response, build disaster recovery, implement Terraform modules, Kubernetes patterns, observability with Datadog and Splunk, and advance CI/CD and FinOps while mentoring engineers.