Technical Operations Lead – SRE

Eliassen Group; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior SRE/Tech Lead for a hybrid, full-time role based in Raleigh, NC, with options in Phoenix, AZ or Dallas, TX depending on client engagements.

You will join the Enterprise Observability and Site Reliability Engineering team to improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence, mentoring engineers and driving automation across cloud and on‑prem workloads.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with observability/monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace or Splunk.
• Cloud experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation.
• Experience in enterprise or regulated environments preferred.
• Certifications in cloud, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, or related technologies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable platforms.
• Lead reliability reviews and drive actions to improve system stability.
• Develop monitoring strategies and dashboards; manage SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on CI/CD and IaC initiatives.
• Lead major incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve efficiency.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Automation

Scripting

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Databahn

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Description:

Hybrid depends on location and important meetings in either Raleigh, NC or Phoenix, AZ or Dallas, TX

Our client, an industry leader in banking and financial services, has an excellent opportunity for an SRE, Tech Lead to work on a full-time opportunity. Work will be a hybrid in Raleigh, NC or Phoenix, AZ. The SRE, Tech Lead will join our Enterprise Observability and Site Reliability Engineering team. This role is responsible for improving the reliability, availability, performance, and operational excellence of critical enterprise platforms and applications. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and infrastructure expertise with a passion for automation, observability, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with application development, cloud engineering, infrastructure, security, and production support teams to establish reliability standards, implement monitoring strategies, and drive proactive risk reduction across the technology landscape.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000/ yr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, resilient, and scalable technology platforms.
• Manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets across critical services.
• Lead reliability reviews and identify opportunities to improve system stability and performance.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for high-severity incidents during the problem process.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise observability platforms, including Dynatrace and related monitoring technologies.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, synthetic testing, and dashboard strategies.
• Improve visibility into application health, infrastructure performance, user experience, and business transaction monitoring.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed observability practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation.
• Develop scripts, tooling, integrations, and self-service capabilities.
• Enhance CI/CD processes to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
• Support infrastructure-as-code and automation-first operating models.
• Participate in major incident response and problem management activities.
• Establish and improve operational runbooks, standards, and best practices.
• Drive reduction in Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Restore (MTTR).
• Implement proactive monitoring and predictive alerting capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across the organization.
• Influence reliability and observability strategy at the enterprise level.
• Collaborate with application owners, cloud teams, security teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Champion a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Experience Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Databahn or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, log analytics, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Large financial institution experience in a complex environment.
• Deep expertise with Dynatrace platform administration and implementation preferred.
• Experience in enterprise-scale financial services or highly regulated environments preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud-native observability patterns and OpenTelemetry preferred.
• Experience implementing SRE practices including SLOs, Error Budgets, reliability reviews, and operational readiness assessments preferred.
• Familiarity with enterprise event management and AIOps platforms preferred.
• Certifications in cloud platforms, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, or related technologies preferred.
• Experience leading large-scale monitoring transformation initiatives preferred.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.