SRE Lead: Observability & Reliability at Scale

OpenBet; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Global collaboration

Flexible working

Job summary

OpenBet, a global leader in betting and gaming, is seeking a seasoned SRE Manager to lead our Site Reliability Engineering team with a focus on observability and performance engineering. You will set monitoring standards, coach engineers, and partner across DevOps, Infrastructure, and Database Engineering to raise reliability across the hybrid estate.

You will guide the observability strategy, own SLI/SLO definitions, and drive AI-assisted approaches to incident detection and root cause

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading an SRE or Performance Engineering team.
• Strong observability expertise: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting.
• Hands-on AWS experience with cost optimization and AI-powered tooling beneficial.
• Experience defining and operationalising SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the SRE team with people management, coaching, and career development.
• Own observability strategy across the platform: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards.
• Manage evaluation, budget, and vendor relationships for observability tooling.
• Explore AI-assisted observability capabilities for anomaly detection and predictive alerting.
• Own performance engineering: load testing, capacity planning, benchmarking.
• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with engineering teams.
• Act as escalation point for major incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Database Engineering to close gaps across hybrid estate.
• Maintain runbooks and playbooks for reliable incident response and prevention.

Skills

SRE leadership

Observability

Performance engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

Rancher

AI-powered observability

Verbal/written communication

Incident response

Tools

Kubernetes

Rancher

Job description

OpenBet, a global leader in betting and gaming, is seeking a seasoned SRE Manager to lead our Site Reliability Engineering team with a focus on observability and performance engineering. You will set monitoring standards, coach engineers, and partner across DevOps, Infrastructure, and Database Engineering to raise reliability across the hybrid estate.

You will guide the observability strategy, own SLI/SLO definitions, and drive AI-assisted approaches to incident detection and root cause