Lead Site Reliability Engineer

The Lead Site Reliability Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of a cloud-based infrastructure and distributed platform. This role owns uptime, SLAs, and incident response while driving long-term improvements in resilience, observability, and automation. The Lead SRE is hands-on and partners closely with platform, QA, and development teams.

This role suits an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, balancing real-time operations with strategic reliability initiatives. You’ll define operational standards, disaster recovery practices, and automation frameworks, while leading incidents and postmortems with clarity and accountability., * Own uptime, SLAs, and overall platform reliability

• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems
• Automate infrastructure, deployments, and operational workflows
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Execute and evolve disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Optimize cloud and Kubernetes environments for scale and performance
• Establish runbooks, operational standards, and reliability best practices
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering; 2+ years in a lead role
• Strong experience supporting production systems with strict SLAs
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, containers, and cloud infrastructure
• Proficiency with Terraform and modern IaC practices
• Strong automation and scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go)
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and observability tooling
• Proven incident leadership and cross-functional communication skills