Manager of Site Reliability

The Planet Group; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The Planet Group has partnered with a Boston area company to locate an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) leader who can guide reliability strategy and help the organization become more proactive, automated, and resilient.

The role blends people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning—you will develop engineers, work with application and infrastructure teams, and translate reliability goals into practical improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading SRE/DevOps teams in an enterprise environment.
• Proven success developing and implementing an SRE improvement strategy.
• Strong people management and coaching abilities.
• Hands-on background in cloud infrastructure and software engineering.
• Working knowledge of AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with observability, incident management, automation, and modern deployment practices.
• Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and how they guide reliability decisions.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess current SRE practices and build a roadmap to improve reliability, availability, and performance.
• Lead and develop teams while coordinating with external engineering partners.
• Establish reliability measures, service objectives, and operational readiness standards.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Drive automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce manual work and recurring issues.
• Partner with developers and infrastructure engineers to improve resilience, deployment practices, and scalability.
• Evaluate opportunities to use AI and other technologies to detect and address issues proactively.
• Communicate technical priorities and service performance to business stakeholders.

Skills

SRE leadership

DevOps leadership

Strategic planning

Coaching engineers

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Observability

Incident management

Automation

Communication

Tools

AWS

Job description

The Planet Group has partnered with a Boston area company to locate an experienced leader with extensive experience in Site Reliability to guide reliability strategy and help an established organization become more proactive, automated, and resilient.

This role combines people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning. The ideal candidate can develop engineers, work closely with application and infrastructure teams, and turn reliability goals into practical improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Assess current SRE practices and build a roadmap to improve reliability, availability, and performance.
• Lead and develop teams while coordinating with external engineering partners.
• Establish reliability measures, service objectives, and operational readiness standards.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Drive automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce manual work and recurring issues.
• Partner with developers and infrastructure engineers to improve resilience, deployment practices, and scalability.
• Evaluate opportunities to use AI and other technologies to detect and address issues proactively.
• Communicate technical priorities and service performance to business stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Significant experience leading SRE, DevOps, or production engineering teams in an enterprise environment.
• Proven success developing and implementing an SRE improvement strategy.
• Strong people management skills, including coaching and developing engineers.
• A hands-on technical background spanning cloud infrastructure and software engineering.
• Working knowledge of AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with observability, incident management, automation, and modern deployment practices.
• Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and how they guide reliability decisions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across teams.