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# Lead Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Liberty Personnel Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Philadelphia, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Datadog, Cloud Platform System, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform
- **Published:** June 15, 2026
- **Apply:** http://www.libertyjobs.com/findjobs-details.php?j_id=85162

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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


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