Senior SRE Lead – Remote, Multi-Region AWS & Kubernetes

Empower Retirement, LLC; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life

401(k) with generous match

Tuition reimbursement

Generous PTO and holidays

Volunteer time off

Parental leave

BRGs for inclusion

Job summary

Empower Retirement, LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across a global AWS infra, including multi-region setups. You will define SRE practices, build Terraform modules, and establish SLOs with incident response leadership.

This role emphasizes security, compliance, and scalable operations in a financial services context. Remote/hybrid positions are available with a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7–10 years in SRE or equivalent with technical leadership.
• Expert AWS knowledge for large multi-region architectures.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including security and production-scale ops.
• Mastery of IaC with Terraform; shared platforms.
• Strong Python and/or Go production experience.
• Experience with Datadog and Splunk for observability.
• Solid CI/CD principles and enterprise pipelines.
• Proven incident leadership and postmortems.
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and building technical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives across teams.
• Define and evolve SRE best practices and standards.
• Architect enterprise-scale, multi-region AWS infra with reliability, cost, performance, security.
• Establish SLOs and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead major incident responses as incident commander.
• Design disaster recovery plans and chaos testing.
• Develop foundational infrastructure patterns with Terraform.
• Architect advanced Kubernetes patterns and security.
• Establish observability strategies using Datadog and Splunk.
• Drive CI/CD standards and progressive delivery at scale.
• Lead FinOps initiatives to optimize cloud spending.
• Mentor SREs and lead architectural reviews.

Skills

SRE leadership

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

Terraform IaC

Python/Go

Observability (Datadog/Splunk)

CI/CD practices

Incident response

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

Splunk

Kubernetes

Job description

Empower Retirement, LLC is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across a global AWS infra, including multi-region setups. You will define SRE practices, build Terraform modules, and establish SLOs with incident response leadership.

This role emphasizes security, compliance, and scalable operations in a financial services context. Remote/hybrid positions are available with a competitive benefits package.