Site Reliability Engineer – Lead

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer/Platform Engineering leader to shape the technology strategy, build a high-performing team, and drive reliability across distributed environments. You will partner with engineering leadership to define standards, governance, and scalable operations.

You will own incident response, capacity planning, and telemetry-driven improvements, mentor engineers, and advance modern practices such as IaC, Kubernetes, and comprehensive observability

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles in large-scale environments.
• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix & Windows systems, networking, and distributed computing.
• Proven experience with observability stacks (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python).
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated success in leading incident response and driving systemic improvements.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team to deliver technology products and services
• Develop a technology strategy and ensure technology solutions comply with standards
• Promote design, engineering, and organizational practices
• Advocate and advance modern, Agile solution delivery practices
• Define and implement SRE frameworks, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and incident response protocols
• Establish governance models for reliability engineering across distributed teams
• Champion a culture of observability and proactive monitoring
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews
• Implement proactive problem detection using telemetry
• Develop and maintain capacity models and monitor performance trends
• Drive automation of operational tasks including deployments and scaling
• Oversee major incident response and communication processes
• Serve as a senior technical advisor and thought leader in SRE and platform engineering
• Mentor SRE teams and partner with engineering leaders across the enterprise

Job description

• Build and lead a team to deliver technology products and services
• Develop a technology strategy and ensure technology solutions comply with standards
• Promote design, engineering, and organizational practices
• Advocate and advance modern, Agile solution delivery practices
• Define and implement SRE frameworks, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and incident response protocols
• Establish governance models for reliability engineering across distributed teams
• Champion a culture of observability and proactive monitoring
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews
• Implement proactive problem detection using telemetry
• Develop and maintain capacity models and monitor performance trends
• Drive automation of operational tasks including deployments and scaling
• Oversee major incident response and communication processes
• Serve as a senior technical advisor and thought leader in SRE and platform engineering
• Mentor SRE teams and partner with engineering leaders across the enterprise

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles in large-scale environments
• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix & Windows systems, networking, and distributed computing
• Proven experience with observability stacks (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python)
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Demonstrated success in leading incident response and driving systemic improvements
• Experience with capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and platform engineering, with a strong focus on developing technology strategies, implementing observability practices, and leading incident response efforts. Proven ability to mentor teams and drive automation in large-scale environments while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Observability Stacks
• Cloud Platforms
• Incident Response Leadership

Hard Skills

• Systems Engineering
• DevOps
• Linux/Unix Systems
• Windows Systems
• Networking
• Distributed Computing
• Capacity Planning
• Performance Tuning
• Cost Optimization
• Automation Tools

Soft Skills

• Excellent Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Engagement

Industry Keywords

• Agile Solution Delivery
• Governance Models
• Proactive Monitoring
• Root Cause Analysis
• Telemetry

Tools & Technologies

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Python
• Kubernetes
• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Splunk
• OpenTelemetry