Principal SRE: Cloud Reliability & Observability Leader

Gen Digital Inc.; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Gen Digital Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define and lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence strategy for our platform.

This senior role combines hands-on expertise with broad organizational influence across application, platform, security, and infrastructure teams. You will drive observability, incident management, capacity planning, and automation, partnering with security and compliance to strengthen controls in PCI and SOC 2 environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform/infrastructure engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS and Kubernetes for large-scale containerized systems.
• Hands-on with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term reliability strategy and technical direction for the platform.
• Lead architecture decisions for highly available, fault‑tolerant systems on cloud platforms.
• Establish SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, incident management, production readiness reviews.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Python/Go

Security/compliance

Communication

System design

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

EKS/ECS/GKE

Job description

Gen Digital Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define and lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence strategy for our platform.

This senior role combines hands-on expertise with broad organizational influence across application, platform, security, and infrastructure teams. You will drive observability, incident management, capacity planning, and automation, partnering with security and compliance to strengthen controls in PCI and SOC 2 environments.