Remote Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Empower Retirement

Greenwood Village (CO)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 230,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life保险

401(k) with generous company matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off and holidays

Volunteer time and community programs

BRGs and inclusive benefits

Job summary

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

You will define SLOs, manage incidents, implement disaster recovery, and guide CI/CD, observability, and FinOps initiatives while mentoring teams and partnering with product, security, and engineering leadership.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
7–10 years in SRE with proven technical leadership.
Expert-level AWS knowledge for large-scale, multi-region designs.
Deep Kubernetes expertise for production environments.
Terraform IaC with shared platforms and frameworks.
Strong Python and/or Go production experience.
Experience with Datadog and Splunk observing solutions.
Enterprise CI/CD pipelines and practices.
Incident leadership and postmortems driven improvements.
Effective communicator and mentor to engineers.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives across multiple teams.
Define and evolve SRE best practices, tools, and standards.
Architect enterprise-scale, multi-region AWS infra for reliability, cost, and security.
Establish SLOs and error budgets for critical services.
Lead major incidents as incident commander and coordinate postmortems.
Design disaster recovery plans, chaos engineering, and reliability testing.
Develop foundational infrastructure patterns with Terraform.
Architect advanced Kubernetes patterns, including multi-tenancy and security.
Establish observability standards using Datadog and Splunk.
Set CI/CD standards and pipeline-as-code practices at scale.
Drive FinOps initiatives to balance cost and reliability.
Mentor SREs and conduct architecture reviews and training.
Coordinate on-call schedules and improve operational efficiency.
Partner with engineering, product, and security teams on strategic initiatives.