Software Engineering Manager-Site Reliability Engineering Center

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team responsible for reliability, scalability and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms powering PNC's digital experiences.

Based in one of several hub locations, this role combines technical leadership with people management and hands-on problem solving. The ideal candidate will drive monitoring, observability, and automation initiatives, oversee on-call

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of related experience with 3+ years in management.
• Experience leading teams in high-availability, enterprise environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of monitoring, cloud/infrastructure platforms, and automation.
• Strong understanding of incident, problem, and change management frameworks.
• Familiarity with databases: Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra; knowledge of Elasticsearch, Redis, MQ, Kafka is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer-centric service improvements and implement proactive reliability practices.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and enhance monitoring and observability capabilities.
• Promote a blameless culture of continuous learning and reduce operational toil through automation.
• Lead end-to-end incident management and remediation for major incidents; communicate with stakeholders during incidents.
• Provide technical leadership in production support; guide troubleshooting across applications, infrastructure, databases, middleware, and integrations.
• Drive root cause analysis for major incidents and push permanent fixes and runbooks.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Production Support

DevOps

Incident management

Monitoring tools

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Communication skills

Leadership

Tools

Dynatrace

BigPanda

Elasticsearch

Kafka

MongoDB

Cassandra

Oracle

SQL

Redis

MQ

Job description

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 Software Engineering Manager within PNC’s Site Reliability organization, you will be based in one of these Technology Hub locations: Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, Birmingham, AL, Dallas, TX, Phoenix AZ or Denver, CO. Weekly time in the office is needed.

• 5 + years of related experience and 3+ years of management experience.
• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Support, or DevOps.
• Proven ability to lead teams in high-availability, enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of incident, problem, and change management frameworks.
• Hands‑on knowledge of monitoring tools, cloud/infrastructure platforms, and automation.
• Experience improving system reliability, observability, and operational maturity.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to lead during high‑pressure situations.
• Experience with OCP under infrastructure (Linux/Windows, OCP), MongoDB, Cassandra under databases (Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) and working knowledge of Elasticsearch, Redis, MQ and Kafka is a plus.

The Site Reliability Center (SRC) is focused on establishing a culture of operational excellence by ensuring infrastructure, platforms, and applications adhere to SRC onboarding standards that improve reliability, enable proactive issue resolution, and reduce customer impact. This role supports the vision of building a collaborative technology organization across application, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver a stable, reliable, and secure environment.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include driving customer‑centric service improvements, implementing proactive and preventative reliability practices, fostering cross‑functional collaboration, enhancing monitoring and observability capabilities, promoting a blameless culture of continuous learning, and reducing operational toil through automation.

The ideal candidate will help improve service performance, strengthen operational resiliency, and advance automation and observability initiatives that enhance the overall customer experience. As a Software Engineering Manager – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you will lead a team responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission‑critical platforms that power PNC’s digital experiences. This role blends technical leadership, hands‑on problem solving, and people management, driving both production stability and continuous improvement across complex distributed systems.

You will…

• Manage SRE and related Teams; lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE engineers; set clear goals, drive accountability, and foster a culture of ownership and excellence; partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to align technology and business objectives; support talent development, performance management, and succession planning; encourage innovation, continuous learning, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
• Provide after‑hours operational leadership and on‑call support. Participate in an on‑call leadership rotation supporting critical production services, major incidents, and high‑severity customer‑impacting events. Availability outside standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, may be required to support incident response, change events, escalations, and business continuity needs.
• Lead incident management & remediation; manage and actively participate in end‑to‑end incident response for major (P1/P2) incidents; guide real‑time triage, diagnostics, and troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and network layers; ensure rapid execution of remediation actions and service restoration; provide clear, timely communication to stakeholders during incidents; oversee post‑incident analysis, reporting, and documentation to drive improvements.
• Provide technical leadership in production support; serve as an escalation point for complex production issues; guide troubleshooting across: applications, infrastructure (Linux/Windows), databases (Oracle, SQL), middleware and integrations; ensure efficient log, metric, and system analysis; oversee batch/ETL monitoring and recovery processes; foster strong collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
• Drive problem management & root cause resolution; lead root cause analysis (RCA) efforts for major and recurring incidents; ensure ownership and resolution of problem records; drive permanent fixes and systemic improvements to eliminate repeat issues, identify trends and patterns to reduce risk and improve stability; partner with engineering teams to resolve code defects and system gaps and promote knowledge sharing via runbooks, knowledge articles, and error catalogs.
• Oversee change management & release execution; ensure safe and compliant execution of production changes and releases; validate change readiness, testing, rollback strategies, and risk assessments; represent the team in CAB reviews, providing technical risk evaluation; oversee post‑implementation reviews (CPIR) and ensure follow‑through and drive improvements in change success rate and reduction in production defects.
• Advance monitoring, alerting & observability; lead efforts to build and optimize monitoring, dashboards, and alerting frameworks, champion use of tools such as Dynatrace, BigPanda, Logscale, and enterprise platforms, improve signal‑to‑noise ratio through alert tuning; enable proactive issue detection before customer impact; strengthen event management and observability practices.
• Provide technical leadership in production support; serve as an escalation point for complex production issues; guide troubleshooting across: applications, infrastructure (Linux/Windows), databases (Oracle, SQL), middleware and integrations; ensure efficient log, metric, and system analysis; oversee batch/ETL monitoring and recovery processes; foster strong collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
• Champion resiliency, stability & availability; lead efforts to ensure high availability of critical systems; oversee disaster recovery, failover, and continuity testing; identify and eliminate single points of failure and drive improvements in MTTR, uptime, and service reliability.
• Enable scalability & performance optimization; guide capacity planning and performance tuning strategies; ensure systems scale effectively under peak demand; partner with development teams for performance‑driven design improvements; optimize system configurations to improve efficiency and throughput.
• Lead a Global 24x7 Operation; manage distributed teams supporting critical systems around the clock. Participate in leadership escalation and on‑call rotations to support major incidents, critical production events, and operational continuity.
• Drive Automation & Operational Efficiency; identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce manual effort through automation; implement automation across: Incident remediation, monitoring and alerting, deployment and validation, promote standardized runbooks and automation frameworks and improve operational metrics and reduce toil.
• Ensure Governance, Risk & Compliance; maintain adherence to enterprise policies and regulatory standards; support audits, vulnerability remediation, and risk controls; ensure accurate documentation and operational procedures and champion security, access management, and data governance practices.

Qualifications

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

Manages development projects, development teams and application support functions. Oversees multiple application programming and analysis projects which include development, installation and maintenance of application programs. Monitors and maintains adherence and compliance to quality standards on an ongoing basis. Maximizes staff contribution through professional growth and development, to increase teamwork and more effectively meet business needs. Analyzes applications to ensure that all systems that are developed, meet business needs and specifications.

PNC Employees Expectations

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.
• Include Intentionally - Cultivates diverse teams and inclusive workplaces to expand thinking.
• Live the Values - Role models our values with transparency and courage.
• Enable Change - Takes action to drive change and innovation that will transform our business.
• Achieve Results - Takes personal ownership to deliver results.
• Empowers and trusts others in decision making.
• Develop the Best - Raises the bar with every talent decision and guides the achievement of all employees and customers.

Preferred Skills

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

Competencies

• Agile Development
• Application Delivery Process
• Application Development Tools
• Coaching Others
• Design Thinking
• IT Environment
• Software Process Improvement (SPI)
• System Testing

Work Experience Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry‑relevant experience. At least 3 years of prior management experience is typically required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education & Certifications

BachelorsCertifications: No Required Certification(s)Licenses: No Required License(s)Language Assessments: No Required or Preferred Language Assessments

Pay Transparency

Base Salary: $110,110.00 – $204,490.00Salaries 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 08/26/2026, 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 accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Without discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religious, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other characteristics protected by law. PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law. This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.

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Company Overview

For nearly 160 years, PNC has strived to make a meaningful impact for our employees, customers, communities, and shareholders. We believe our success and positive reputation are built on open and honest dialogue, an unwavering focus on smart risk management, relationship‑based customer service and community investments. Our inclusive workplace allows our employees to be heard, valued, and developed to do their best work. Being a great place to work means we are making a lasting difference for everyone we serve. Check out the top reasons to join PNC.

Benefits Highlighted

PNC’s total rewards package includes things like time off, benefits, learning and career development, wellness programs, recognition and much more. The benefits and programs highlighted below are just a sampling of what PNC offers its employees. To learn more, visit our Total Rewards page.