Senior Cloud SRE: Resilience, Automation & Observability

Capital One; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 179,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer 4 to lead resilience initiatives for its cloud operations. You will drive architecture for large-scale systems, automate toil removal, and guide crisis response across engineering teams.

Applicants should have a strong track record in multi-cloud, IaC/CI/CD, observability, and cost optimization. This role is based in Riverwoods, IL with a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading SRE/DevOps initiatives and roadmaps.
• Experience architecting enterprise-scale cloud solutions on major providers.
• Strong skills in IaC/CI/CD and multi-cloud strategies.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems.
• Spearhead automation to reduce toil and improve platform efficiency.
• Lead crisis management, RCA, and outage prevention strategies.
• Define secure multi-cloud IaC strategy and maturity roadmap.
• Establish organization-wide SLOs and reliability governance.
• Mentor SRE teams and scale practices across engineering groups.
• Oversee capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps.

Skills

SRE leadership

DevOps

Cost optimization

Observability

Kubernetes

Serverless

Multi-cloud

CI/CD

Generative AI

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

8+ years SRE/DevOps leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer 4 to lead resilience initiatives for its cloud operations. You will drive architecture for large-scale systems, automate toil removal, and guide crisis response across engineering teams.

Applicants should have a strong track record in multi-cloud, IaC/CI/CD, observability, and cost optimization. This role is based in Riverwoods, IL with a competitive compensation package.