Senior SRE Lead — Cloud Reliability & Automation

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across critical systems. You will lead cloud-based design, incident response, and automation efforts within a collaborative engineering team.

Responsibilities include setting SLOs/SLAs, building observability, and guiding security and compliance in CI/CD pipelines. This is an onsite role focused on maintaining resilience for the U.S.

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.
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.
• GenAI based Applications: Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic applications a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient systems across cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure optimal system performance.
• Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Build and maintain internal tools and services to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement reliability best practices.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Incident management

Security practices

Education

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

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

SAST/DAST tools

Job description

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across critical systems. You will lead cloud-based design, incident response, and automation efforts within a collaborative engineering team.

Responsibilities include setting SLOs/SLAs, building observability, and guiding security and compliance in CI/CD pipelines. This is an onsite role focused on maintaining resilience for the U.S.