Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Job Title: Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Location: Remote

Salary: $220,000-$225,000

Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Team Leadership, Automation

About the Technology, Information and Media Company / The Opportunity:

Join a cutting-edge organization in the Technology, Information and Media industry at the forefront of delivering highly available, scalable, and secure platforms serving millions of users and handling significant transaction volumes. Our client is committed to innovation and operational excellence, offering the exciting opportunity to lead and build world-class Site Reliability Engineering practices. As Director of SRE, you will drive strategic reliability initiatives, shape engineering culture, and play a pivotal role in the organization’s continued growth and reliability journey while mentoring strong engineering teams in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a comprehensive company-wide Site Reliability Engineering strategy, embedding reliability as a core discipline across engineering teams.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing SRE organization, including hiring, mentoring, and fostering a reliability-focused culture.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, KPIs, and error budgets to measure and drive platform reliability and performance improvement.
• Guide architecture decisions and technical roadmaps for highly available, resilient, and scalable distributed systems.
• Drive adoption of observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response solutions across cloud-based microservices environments, primarily on Google Cloud Platform.
• Establish and oversee robust incident response frameworks, operational governance, and post-incident analysis processes.
• Promote and implement best practices for infrastructure automation, cloud-native operations, and cost optimization.
• Lead continuous improvement and innovation initiatives, including exploring AI-driven operations and new SRE methodologies.

Must-Have Skills:

• 12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps in high-scale environments.
• 5 years of proven technical leadership, building and scaling SRE teams and practices.
• Strong expertise with distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructures, microservices, and hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions).
• Deep proficiency with infrastructure as code, automation frameworks, and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Track record designing large-scale observability and monitoring solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Excellent communication, organizational development, and mentorship abilities.
• Strong programming ability in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Cloud or reliability certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Professional, SRE certifications).
• Experience implementing AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, or automated remediation/self-healing infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI/ML tools for operational intelligence and intelligent alerting.
• Strong database performance tuning and distributed data systems knowledge.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth technology environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.