Senior Cloud SRE: Reliability & Automation Leader

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off + sabbatical after 5 yrs

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead hands‑on technical work and drive the team in high availability, maintainability, support, and automation of complex platforms and microservices. You will partner with senior technologists and business partners to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast‑moving environment.

The role emphasizes global collaboration, proactive monitoring, and production support, with a focus on Terraform, CI/CD, and Atlassian toolchains.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux/Java Software Development & Architecture, Operations, DevOps, etc.
• 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 withContinuousIntegration/ContinuousDelivery(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 thebusiness,ensureday-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 Dev & Architecture

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Database: Oracle/SQL

PaaS & IaaS

CI/CD Tools

Git/JIRA Atlassian

Provisioning & Deployment Automation

Terraform

On-Call & Incident Mgmt

Tools

Bamboo

Go

Git

JIRA

Salt/Chef/Puppet

Terraform

Job description

Charles Schwab seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead hands‑on technical work and drive the team in high availability, maintainability, support, and automation of complex platforms and microservices. You will partner with senior technologists and business partners to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast‑moving environment.

The role emphasizes global collaboration, proactive monitoring, and production support, with a focus on Terraform, CI/CD, and Atlassian toolchains.