Remote SRE Program Manager: Cloud & Observability

Onward Search; Ohio; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Program

eLearning & Training

Education Reimbursement

Job summary

Onward Search is seeking a skilled SRE Project Manager for a remote, contract role supporting multiple SRE engineering teams. You will drive technical program delivery across infrastructure, reliability, incident management, cloud cost optimization, and observability initiatives, aligning teams and improving execution.

Responsibilities include managing backlogs, sprint ceremonies, and cross-functional collaboration with Development, Security, and Cloud Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in technical program management within software engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum and Jira/Confluence best practices.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, and Terraform.
• Familiarity with observability, alerting, and incident response tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or PagerDuty.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, and post-mortem ceremonies for SRE teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives with Development, Security, and Cloud Engineering partners.
• Maintain Jira workflows by ensuring tickets are defined, estimated, assigned, and properly linked.
• Track and communicate progress on reliability, performance, and cost-focused initiatives.
• Facilitate team ceremonies and leadership reviews while improving processes, documentation, and workflows.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Jira

Confluence

Observability

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Kubernetes

ECS

Terraform

Datadog

New Relic

PagerDuty

Job description

Onward Search is seeking a skilled SRE Project Manager for a remote, contract role supporting multiple SRE engineering teams. You will drive technical program delivery across infrastructure, reliability, incident management, cloud cost optimization, and observability initiatives, aligning teams and improving execution.

Responsibilities include managing backlogs, sprint ceremonies, and cross-functional collaboration with Development, Security, and Cloud Engineering teams.