What are the responsibilities and job description for the SRE Lead position at InfiCare?
Job Title: SRE Lead
Location: Pleasanton, CA (5 Days Onsite)
Job Type: Full Time
Job Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for all eCommerce services
- Drive chaos engineering and game-day exercises to validate fault tolerance
- Architect resilient multi-AZ, multi-region AWS deployments for zero-downtime operations
- Own and evolve Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for microservices on Kubernetes/EKS
- Implement GitOps workflows; enforce trunk-based development and deployment gates
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CDK
- Manage Akamai CDN configuration: edge rules, caching policies, TLS, WAF, and traffic shaping
- Design and govern caching strategy across CDN, Redis, and Memcached layers
- Build and maintain Splunk APM and Splunk Cloud dashboards, alerts, and runbooks
- Implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) across all microservices
- Partner with InfoSec on PCI-DSS compliance, vulnerability management, and secrets governance
- Enforce least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, and container security scanning
- Mentor junior engineers and foster SRE culture across teams
Required Skills
- Akamai CDN — edge config, WAF, TLS, traffic management
- AWS Core Services — EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, VPC, KMS
- Kubernetes / Amazon EKS — production operations, Helm, HPA/VPA
- Jenkins CI/CD — pipeline design and optimization
- Splunk APM & Splunk Cloud — dashboards and alerting
- Security — PCI-DSS compliance, IAM least-privilege, container security scanning
- Infrastructure as Code — CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK
- Distributed caching — Redis & Memcached
- SRE Leadership — SLI/SLO/Error Budget management, blameless post-mortems, DORA metrics
Preferred Skills
- OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing across microservices
- Chaos engineering tooling and game-day planning
- eCommerce platform domain expertise at scale
- Cross-team technical leadership and offshore team coordination
Location & Work Model
Pleasanton, CA — 5 days per week onsite required.
Engagement Details
Full-time permanent position. Ideal for a senior SRE professional ready to step into a leadership role on a high-visibility, mission-critical retail platform.