SRE Engineering Lead - Digital Banking Reliability

M&T Bank; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 128,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank's Digital Banking organization seeks an Engineering Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), to lead a team responsible for the stability, reliability, and performance of online and mobile banking platforms. You will drive SRE best practices, observability, incident management, and release engineering while collaborating across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams.

The role emphasizes cloud-native distributed systems, Microsoft Azure, IaC (Terraform),

Qualifications

• Combined minimum of 9 years' higher education and/or work experience, including at least 4 years engineering/architecture experience and 3 years leadership experience
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering principles, operational excellence, and production support practices
• Experience leading technical teams supporting highly available customer-facing applications
• Experience with application monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and incident management processes
• Knowledge of release engineering, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers for availability, resiliency, performance, and operational health of Digital Banking platforms
• Drive SRE best practices including SLOs/SLAs, observability, monitoring, and automation
• Partner with engineering teams to design and support highly available services
• Establish incident management, root cause analysis, and operational readiness processes
• Oversee release governance, deployment readiness, and production validation for customer-facing apps

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

GitLab

Artifactory

Observability

SRE Principles

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitLab

Artifactory

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

M&T Bank's Digital Banking organization seeks an Engineering Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), to lead a team responsible for the stability, reliability, and performance of online and mobile banking platforms. You will drive SRE best practices, observability, incident management, and release engineering while collaborating across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams.

The role emphasizes cloud-native distributed systems, Microsoft Azure, IaC (Terraform),