Senior SRE Lead: AI-Driven Cloud Reliability

Charles Schwab Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation in Austin, TX seeks a Reliability Engineering Lead to drive the reliability, scalability and security of mission-critical applications. This Lead IC role requires hands-on leadership across cloud operations, incident management, and automation to deliver secure, scalable platforms.

You will mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and champion modern SRE and AI-driven DevOps practices to improve production resilience and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience administering and supporting enterprise technology environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting large-scale Java and/or .NET production applications in cloud environments.
• 8+ years of experience troubleshooting and supporting .NET or .NET Core applications.
• 5+ years of experience configuring, deploying, supporting, or migrating cloud-based applications.
• Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), observability, incident management, and platform reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability, availability, and performance initiatives for enterprise platforms and applications.
• Drive incident management, problem management, root cause analysis, and operational excellence practices.
• Establish and enhance observability standards, monitoring strategies, and service reliability metrics.
• Partner with engineering teams to modernize applications and accelerate cloud adoption.
• Develop and implement automation solutions that reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
• Leverage AI-enabled DevOps capabilities to enhance support processes, monitoring, and platform reliability.
• Influence architecture and engineering decisions across multiple teams.
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership as a Lead IC without direct people-management responsibilities.
• Support mission-critical systems and ensure a resilient, secure, and scalable production environment.

Skills

Java

.NET

GCP

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

AppDynamics

Ansible

Job description

Charles Schwab Corporation in Austin, TX seeks a Reliability Engineering Lead to drive the reliability, scalability and security of mission-critical applications. This Lead IC role requires hands-on leadership across cloud operations, incident management, and automation to deliver secure, scalable platforms.

You will mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and champion modern SRE and AI-driven DevOps practices to improve production resilience and performance.