Lead SRE: Cloud Reliability & DevOps Leadership

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

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will shape cloud architecture, automation, and security practices while mentoring a growing SRE team onsite in San Francisco and Richmond locations.

As a senior technical leader, you will own incident response, disaster recovery planning, and collaboration with software teams to implement best practices across the stack.

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.
• GenAI based Applications: Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic applications a plus.

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.
• Build and maintain internal tools and services to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement reliability best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance on system design.
• Develop monitoring solutions, alerting systems, and observability frameworks.
• Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST).
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor junior SRE team members and promote SRE culture across the organization.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve system reliability and drive technical initiatives.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

GitLab

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. You will shape cloud architecture, automation, and security practices while mentoring a growing SRE team onsite in San Francisco and Richmond locations.

As a senior technical leader, you will own incident response, disaster recovery planning, and collaboration with software teams to implement best practices across the stack.