Senior SRE: Cloud Resilience & Automation Lead

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer 4 to drive scalable, reliable production systems across multi-cloud environments. You will lead automation, incident response, and capacity planning in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

The role requires 8+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), and a track record of building reliable platforms. Mastery of observability, IaC, and security governance helps shape architecture and SLOs across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years leading SRE or DevOps initiatives.
• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive 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 IaC strategy and maturity roadmap.
• Establish organization-wide SLOs, driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Crisis management

Automation

Observability

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in CS or related field

Master’s Degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer 4 to drive scalable, reliable production systems across multi-cloud environments. You will lead automation, incident response, and capacity planning in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

The role requires 8+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), and a track record of building reliable platforms. Mastery of observability, IaC, and security governance helps shape architecture and SLOs across teams.