Lead SRE Engineer

Job Title: Lead SRE Engineer

Location: Remote

Role Summary

As a Lead SRE Engineer, you will balance hands-on technical execution with engineering leadership to drive platform reliability, operational resilience, and automation. You will design scalable system architectures, modernize deployment pipelines, and minimize operational friction across complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Key Responsibilities

• System Reliability & Architecture: Lead performance engineering, incident response, and scalable system design across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.

• Automation & CI/CD Pipeline: Build, maintain, and optimize end-to-end continuous integration and delivery toolchains to ensure fast, secure releases.

• Observability & Diagnostics: Establish full-stack monitoring, telemetry, and synthetic testing standards to proactively detect and resolve outages.

• Infrastructure & Security Governance: Oversee network traffic management, load balancing, proxy configurations, and end-to-end SSL/TLS certificate lifecycles.

• Operational Leadership: Implement ITIL-aligned governance, drive root-cause analysis (RCA), and lead technical teams toward continuous operational improvement.

Core Technical Skills

• Programming & Scripting: Java, Python, Go, Shell Scripting, PowerShell, Groovy (Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures)

• Cloud & Infrastructure: PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), VMware, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure Fundamentals, Scalable System Design

• Database Systems: Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Advanced SQL

• Observability & Monitoring: Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BlazeMeter, ThousandEyes, BrowserStack

• CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, XL Release (XLR), Habitat, Ansible, Chef Infra, Artifactory, SonarQube, SCM Branching Strategies

• Networking & Traffic Management: Wireshark, TCP/IP, F5 Load Balancers, Proxies, FTP/SFTP

• Certificate Management: Venafi, ECMS, OpenSSL

• ITSM & Compliance: ITIL Framework, Governance, Disaster Recovery Planning