Site Reliability Engineering Manager

O.C. Tanner; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

O.C. Tanner seeks a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering in Salt Lake City to lead strategy and execution for a scalable employee recognition platform. You will mentor a team of SREs, partner with Engineering, Product, and Support, and champion reliability through automation, observability, and shared ownership.

This role drives incident response, on-call processes, and continuous improvement at scale. You will advance enterprise standards for metrics, logs, traces, and SLIs/SLOs, enabling

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership or people management role.
• Experience designing and implementing SRE practices, reliability programs, or operational maturity initiatives.
• Experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms with high availability and performance requirements.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Deep understanding of monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Product, and Support.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of SREs, fostering reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the organization's reliability strategy to improve availability and resilience through automation.
• Set team priorities, goals, and metrics aligned with business objectives and platform health.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Support to embed reliability across the SDLC.
• Build observability capabilities using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Coralogix, and related tools.
• Oversee incident response, triage, and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Champion a reliability-first culture with automation and toil reduction.
• Collaborate with global teams in a follow-the-sun support model for 24x7 coverage.
• Own on-call programs and operational health metrics, driving improvements.
• Manage team capacity, hiring, performance, and workforce planning.
• Report reliability trends and strategic initiatives to leadership.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

People management

Incident management

Observability

AWS

Kubernetes

SRE practices

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Coralogix

Terraform

Playwright

Golang

Python

OpenSearch

Job description

As the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you will lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of reliability for our world-class employee recognition platform. You will build, mentor, and empower a team of Site Reliability Engineers while partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Support organizations to deliver highly available, scalable, and resilient services that serve millions of users. We are seeking a leader who is passionate about operational excellence, continuous improvement, and fostering a reliability-first culture through automation, observability, and shared ownership. In this role, you will champion the development of self-healing platforms, drive incident and operational maturity, and enable engineering teams to innovate faster while delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of reliability, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the organization's reliability strategy, improving availability, scalability, performance, and resilience through automation and engineering best practices.
• Establish team priorities, goals, and success metrics aligned with business objectives, customer needs, and platform health.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Support leaders to drive shared ownership of production services and embed reliability, observability, and operational excellence throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Build and evolve observability capabilities using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Coralogix, or similar tools, establishing enterprise standards for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Oversee production triage, incident response, and escalation processes, ensuring timely service restoration, effective root cause analysis, and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Champion a reliability-first engineering culture focused on automation, proactive risk reduction, operational readiness, shift-left quality practices, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams in a follow-the-sun support model, ensuring seamless 24x7 coverage, effective operational handoffs, and consistent service ownership.
• Own on-call programs, incident management practices, and operational health metrics, driving improvements in alert quality, operational efficiency, and toil reduction.
• Manage team capacity, hiring, performance management, career development, budgeting, and workforce planning to ensure effective support of business-critical services.
• Provide regular reporting to engineering and executive leadership on reliability trends, incidents, risks, performance metrics, and strategic initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines, including 2+ years in a technical leadership or people management role.
• Proven experience leading teams responsible for production operations, reliability engineering, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Experience designing and implementing SRE practices, reliability programs, or operational maturity initiatives within growing engineering organizations.
• Experience operating large-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms with high availability, performance, and scalability requirements.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices and partnering with development teams to build reliable, resilient systems.
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Coralogix, or similar technologies.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Deep understanding of monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Support organizations.
• Experience developing engineering roadmaps, defining team objectives, aligning reliability investments with business priorities, and driving continuous operational improvement through incident learning and post-incident reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading distributed or globally dispersed engineering teams.
• Experience with multiple cloud providers or cloud-agnostic platform architectures.
• Familiarity with security, compliance, governance, and operational risk management frameworks.
• Proficiency with modern Infrastructure-as-Code and technologies such as Terraform, Golang, Python, Playwright, and Performance Monitoring tools.
• Experience with relational and distributed data technologies such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis/ElastiCache, or Aurora.
• Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, SNS/SQS, or similar event-driven technologies.
• Strong understanding of cost optimization, platform sustainability, and engineering efficiency metrics.