SRE Automation Lead — FinTech Platform

DriveWealth; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

401(k) match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid Parental Leave

PTO

Holiday observances

Job summary

DriveWealth in Chicago is seeking a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers while remaining a hands-on technical authority for our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform.

You will drive automation, design internal tooling with Rundeck and Airflow, implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets), and mentor engineers. This role also covers IaC with Terraform, GitOps via ArgoCD, and Kubernetes governance.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of people leadership for SRE/DevOps engineers in fintech or regulated env.
• Working knowledge of Google's SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets and toil reduction.
• Proficient Linux administration with TCP/IP and networking troubleshooting.
• Experience in highly regulated financial environments or with FIX/API connectivity.
• Production Kubernetes management including RBAC, autoscaling, Helm.
• AWS core services, security, high availability; boto3/AWS CLI.
• CI/CD and GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Scripting in Python or Go, Bash and Ansible.
• Observability with Grafana/Prometheus and log/metric alerting.
• Security mindset: secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
• AI and prompt engineering to enhance SRE workflows.
• Rundeck and Airflow for job orchestration; Kafka/MQ/SQS experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of SRE Automation Engineers; set direction and manage performance.
• Drive automation design and develop internal tooling with Rundeck and Airflow.
• Adapt Google SRE principles; define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• Set architectural standards for IaC with Terraform and GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Oversee Kubernetes metrics, capacity planning, and cost optimization across regions.
• Lead incident response and perform root cause analysis with blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to align SRE priorities with business goals.

Skills

People leadership

SRE fundamentals

Linux networking

FinTech background

Production Kubernetes

AWS cloud native

CI/CD & GitOps

Python/Go

Observability tools

Security mindset

AI & prompt engineering

Data orchestration

Tools

Rundeck

Airflow

Terraform

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Grafana/Prometheus

AWS

boto3 / AWS CLI

Git

Job description

DriveWealth in Chicago is seeking a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers while remaining a hands-on technical authority for our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform.

You will drive automation, design internal tooling with Rundeck and Airflow, implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets), and mentor engineers. This role also covers IaC with Terraform, GitOps via ArgoCD, and Kubernetes governance.