Senior Cloud SRE Lead — High Availability & Automation

Charles Schwab Corporation; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation in Texas seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead SRE tasks across enterprise platforms, driving high availability and automated deployments while mentoring a team of engineers in a fast-moving environment.

You'll partner with product owners and business partners, implement production support processes, and develop scalable, reliable systems using Linux/Java, CI/CD, Terraform, and related tools.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux/Java software development and architecture.
• Experience leading or managing technology teams, aligning strategy with execution and mentoring/coaching individuals' performance.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve business and service impacting problems, evaluating all alternatives, and consulting with other technical members of the organization is required.
• Familiarity with database management systems (Oracle, SQL).
• Knowledge of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (Bamboo, Go or other related tools).
• Experience with Git, JIRA and related Atlassian stack.
• Experience with environment provisioning and deployment automation (Salt/Chef/Puppet).
• Ability to work with global teams.
• Flexibility to operate in an environment with changing demands and priorities.
• Experience with Terraform is required.
• Experience with OnCall for Production Support and Incident Management

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of the SRE tasks for the Cross Enterprise organizations.
• Communicate strategic technology plans to associated business partners ensuring collaboration across technology and the business.
• Regularly interact with senior technology leaders, product owners and business partners.
• Lead team on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth knowledge of the applications and environment.
• Partner with highly experienced technologists, creating successful plans to deliver solutions to the business, ensure day-to-day support, high availability, and process compliance.
• Lead Operational delivery and Production support focusing on proactive monitoring, rapid response Platform SRE
• Perform proactive daily system monitoring including reviewing system and application logs as well as responding to, triaging, troubleshooting and remediating incidents.
• Repair and recover from failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted stakeholders and clients, escalating where appropriate.
• Monitor and troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - software, application, and network.
• Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications.
• Identify applications reliability and availability improvements, establish, and build solutions to continue to drive an improved experience.
• Develop and manage continuous deployment and integrate solutions.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Scrum and Ops resources to provide technical expertise and support on key initiatives for system availability and reliability.
• Create and Host Gameday exercises for customers to achieve operational excellence.

Skills

Linux/Java

SRE leadership

CI/CD

Terraform

Go

Git

JIRA

On‑call

PaaS/IaaS

Tools

Terraform

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

Bamboo

Job description

Charles Schwab Corporation in Texas seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead SRE tasks across enterprise platforms, driving high availability and automated deployments while mentoring a team of engineers in a fast-moving environment.

You'll partner with product owners and business partners, implement production support processes, and develop scalable, reliable systems using Linux/Java, CI/CD, Terraform, and related tools.