SRE Operations Lead — AI-Driven Cloud & CI/CD

SFE

Charlotte (NC)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

SFE is seeking an SRE Operations Lead to spearhead 24x7 production reliability for AWS, GitLab and AI-driven operations in Charlotte, onsite. You will own reliability metrics, drive observability and automation, and coordinate major incident response with cross-functional teams.

The role demands 5+ years in SRE leadership, strong CI/CD/DevSecOps experience, and hands-on cloud, Python, and AI tooling expertise.

Qualifications

5+ years in SRE / application reliability leadership.
Experience leading 24x7 SRE operations and incident response.
Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead 24x7 SRE operations and coordinate P1/P2 incident response through restoration and follow-up.
Own reliability measures: SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and MTTR improvements.
Drive end-to-end observability using Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Splunk.
Lead automation, AIOps, self-healing, event correlation, and AI-driven operations initiatives.
Oversee AWS platform operations, batch processing, and related environments.
Integrate Claude AI on AWS Bedrock with GitLab via APIs and custom workflows.
Develop AI-driven analysis of GitLab project data, vulnerabilities, pipelines and security findings.
Design GitLab API automation, DevSecOps controls, and CI/CD pipeline improvements.
Build and maintain Python-based GitLab integrations and REST API solutions.
Support vulnerability remediation and onboarding/configuration of security scanning tools.
Manage AWS Lambda, ECR, and Bedrock for deployment and automation; optimize Lambda settings.
Design and support resilient multi-region AWS architectures and containerized deployments with Docker.