Remote SRE Automation Manager — Scale FinTech Platforms

DriveWealth; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness packages

Unlimited vacation

Remote/hybrid options

Professional development support

Job summary

DriveWealth is seeking a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers and stay hands-on as a principal engineer. You’ll reduce toil, build scalable automation, and guide reliability initiatives across our Kubernetes-based, multi-region platform for a regulated brokerage environment.

You’ll drive the automation agenda with Rundeck and Airflow, mentor engineers, and own incident response, RCA culture, and SRE governance while collaborating with engineering

Qualifications

• Leads SRE Automation Engineers, balancing people leadership with hands-on engineering depth.
• Drives automation strategy and builds an automation practice in a regulated brokerage environment.
• Develops internal tooling and IaC standards using Terraform and GitOps with ArgoCD.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of SRE Automation Engineers, guiding career development and performance.
• Design and implement internal tooling and automation, including Rundeck and Airflow orchestration.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and postmortems to drive reliability and toil reduction.
• Oversee IaC standards and GitOps workflows for Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to align reliability priorities with business goals.

Skills

SRE leadership

Automation engineering

Team mentorship

Google SRE principles

Kubernetes

GitOps

Python

Golang

Terraform

Airflow

Rundeck

ArgoCD

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Observability

Cloud (AWS)

Incident response

Tools

Rundeck

Airflow

ArgoCD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

AWS CLI

boto3

Kafka

MQ

SQS

Ansible

Job description

DriveWealth is seeking a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers and stay hands-on as a principal engineer. You’ll reduce toil, build scalable automation, and guide reliability initiatives across our Kubernetes-based, multi-region platform for a regulated brokerage environment.

You’ll drive the automation agenda with Rundeck and Airflow, mentor engineers, and own incident response, RCA culture, and SRE governance while collaborating with engineering