Site Reliability Engineer Sr.

PNC; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 86,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

In-office role

Benefits package

Mentorship program

Job summary

PNC is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer based in the Cleveland area for an in-office role at the Operations Center. You will stabilize environments, design dashboards, implement monitoring with SLAs/SLOs, and drive incident management improvements across production systems.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in reliability engineering, strong analytical skills, and a track record of mentoring others in infrastructure and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of relevant IT/engineering experience.
• Strong Analytical Thinking and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Stabilize environments and plan capacity for production systems.
• Define and implement dashboards and monitoring; enforce SLAs/SLOs.
• Analyze metrics, troubleshoot incidents, and perform blameless post-mortems.
• Mentor junior teammates on infrastructure and disaster recovery.

Skills

Application Development

Business Management

Customer Solutions

Design

Group Problem Solving

Process Improvements

Release Management

Software Solutions

User Experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success.

Job Profile

R229640

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success.

As a Site Reliability Engineer Sr. within PNC's Site Reliability Center (SRC) you will be based at PNC's Operations Center in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Identifies and establishes ways of stabilizing environments and sites while assessing opportunities to drive engineering stability through the analytics and metrics. Responsible for site design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Defines, creates, and ensures that robust dashboards and monitoring systems are implemented. Identifies, coordinates, and implements SLAs and SLOs through the use of established robust monitoring for applications, service sites and platforms.
• Leads in analyzing metrics from operating sites and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding. Troubleshoots priority incidents and participates in blameless post-mortems.
• Understands our stack to optimize complex systems and user interactions, such as how code is deployed, configured, and monitored, as well as the availability, latency, change management, emergency response, and capacity planning of services in production.
• Engages in testing strategy approaches and results, complex incident response and root cause analysis efforts, resolving underlying issues, driving continuous improvement in incident management process, and reducing mean time to resolution.
• Mentors and trains junior team members on best practices for infrastructure management and disaster recovery.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills

Application Development, Business Management, Customer Solutions, Design, Group Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Release Management, Software Solutions, User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies

Analytical Thinking, Application Design, Architecture, Application Maintenance, Application Testing, IT Industry: Trends & Directions, IT Standards, Procedures & Policies, Software Process Improvement (SPI), Software Reliability Management, System Testing, Technical Troubleshooting

Work Experience

Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 3+ years of relevant / direct industry experience. Certifications are often desired. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education

Bachelors

Certifications

No Required Certification(s)

Licenses

No Required License(s)

Pay Transparency

Base Salary: $86,250.00 – $143,750.00

Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.

Application Window

Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 08/03/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit pncthrive.com.

Disability Accommodations Statement

If an accommodation is required to participate in the application process, please contact us via email at [e-mail]. Please include “accommodation request” in the subject line title and be sure to include your name, the job ID, and your preferred method of contact in the body of the email. Emails not related to accommodation requests will not receive responses. Applicants may also call 877-968-7762 and say "Workday" for accommodation assistance. All information provided will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

At PNC we foster an inclusive and