Senior SRE: Reliability & Automation Leader

Devopsroles

United States

Remote

USD 128,000 - 165,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Penn Mutual is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (Senior Site Reliability Engineer) to advance reliability across critical systems in a highly regulated financial services setting. This hands-on technical leader designs, implements, and guides reliability through automation, observability, and architectural oversight while contributing to development, release, and incident triage.

You will operate with substantial autonomy, tackle ambiguous problems, and influence upstream system design to

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
6–10+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, platform, or DevOps roles.
Experience performing root cause analysis on incidents and documenting SRE systems.
Strong programming skills in multiple languages.
Deep experience with AWS and distributed systems.
Advanced knowledge of observability, ITSM, and reliability engineering principles.
Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated environments.
Experience with observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Experience with Root Cause Analysis investigation/documentation.
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies.
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve reliability strategy and architecture for critical systems.
Lead incident management during major incidents and outages.
Improve automation to reduce manual toil at scale.
Build and maintain shared SRE tooling and platforms.
Set engineering standards for reliability-focused code and practices.
Review and improve CI/CD, deployment, and rollback strategies.
Collaborate with Release/Change Management to automate releases and assess risk.
Mentor junior SREs and engineers to promote operational excellence.