Senior Site Reliability Engineer & Incident Lead

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation in the Raleigh-Charlotte corridor seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Lead to strengthen reliability across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will lead major incident responses, drive problem management, and implement automation to reduce downtime, while mentoring engineers and shaping enterprise observability practices.

This role requires 7+ years in distributed systems, Kubernetes, scripting, and proven leadership in incident management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development.
• Deep knowledge of multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, testing, deployment, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead major incident responses and drive problem management.
• Implement automation to reduce downtime and improve resilience.
• Standardize observability practices and mentorship across the SRE team.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and product partners to inform roadmaps.
• Develop and enforce incident playbooks, escalation paths, and communication standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Automation scripting

Incident management leadership

Cloud-native architectures

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python

Go

PowerShell

Ansible

Job description

Truist Financial Corporation in the Raleigh-Charlotte corridor seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Lead to strengthen reliability across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will lead major incident responses, drive problem management, and implement automation to reduce downtime, while mentoring engineers and shaping enterprise observability practices.

This role requires 7+ years in distributed systems, Kubernetes, scripting, and proven leadership in incident management.