Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud, Automation & SLOs

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer 5 to drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems, and lead strategic automation to reduce toil while improving platform efficiency.

You will mentor SRE teams, define multi-cloud IaC/CI-CD strategies, establish SLOs, and guide capacity forecasting and FinOps for core infrastructure in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 10 years of experience driving cross-organizational reliability strategy and defining multi-year technical roadmaps.
• At least 8 years of experience in global cloud architecture, optimization, and governance across AWS, Azure and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems
• Spearhead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and elevate platform efficiency
• Lead crisis management, deep-dive RCA, and define system-wide outage prevention strategies
• Define and govern the secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy and maturity roadmap
• Establish organization-wide SLOs, driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance
• Serve as the primary technical mentor, scaling SRE talent and culture across engineering teams
• Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure

Skills

Architectural vision

Automation

Crisis management

IaC/CI-CD

SRE principles

Kubernetes

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer 5 to drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems, and lead strategic automation to reduce toil while improving platform efficiency.

You will mentor SRE teams, define multi-cloud IaC/CI-CD strategies, establish SLOs, and guide capacity forecasting and FinOps for core infrastructure in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.