Production SRE Lead: Reliability, Scale & Observability

Vultr; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid insurance

401(k) match

Professional development reimbursement

Paid holidays + PTO accrual

Remote office stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym membership reimbursement

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a Manager of Production Site Reliability Engineering to build and lead a new team responsible for the availability, performance, and operability of our production control plane. This is the environment that runs our customer-facing web applications and the internal platform that supports them.

You will hire, grow, and lead a team of SREs and database engineers, set the operational culture, and partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to ensure the

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE or infra with at least 2 years in leadership.
• Experience operating production web stacks at scale and debugging performance.
• Strong Linux, networking, systemd and security posture.
• Proven ability to hire and build engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Production Site Reliability Engineering team.
• Own availability, performance, and operability of the production web stack.
• Lead incident response and drive postmortems for durable improvements.
• Own configuration management for the production environment.
• Partner with engineering to ensure new services are production-ready.
• Drive the control plane re-architecture and cutover planning.
• Set the operational roadmap including capacity planning and DR.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability across the stack.
• Manage the production database and caching environment.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence with runbooks and reviews.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Team Leadership

Linux Systems

Observability

Incident Response

Database Replication

Migrations / Cutovers

PHP Basics

Cloudflare / CDN

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

HAProxy

Keepalived

Redis

Job description

Vultr is seeking a Manager of Production Site Reliability Engineering to build and lead a new team responsible for the availability, performance, and operability of our production control plane. This is the environment that runs our customer-facing web applications and the internal platform that supports them.

You will hire, grow, and lead a team of SREs and database engineers, set the operational culture, and partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to ensure the