Senior SRE Lead — Cloud, Automation & Resilience (Onsite)

Devopsroles; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems. You will guide incident response, design cloud-native architectures, and mentor a growing SRE team.

You will collaborate with software engineering to implement best practices, automation, and security controls across CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and infrastructure. Full-time onsite role with strong compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• 3+ years in a lead or senior technical position.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale production systems.
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.
• GenAI-based applications knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering principles and practices.
• Background in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable systems across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform.
• Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain internal tools and services to improve operational efficiency.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Microservices

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CloudWatch

Splunk

Grafana

X-Ray

Job description

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems. You will guide incident response, design cloud-native architectures, and mentor a growing SRE team.

You will collaborate with software engineering to implement best practices, automation, and security controls across CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and infrastructure. Full-time onsite role with strong compensation and benefits.