Lead DevOps (Site Reliability Engineer)

About the role

The Lead SRE will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based systems hosted in AWS. You will collaborate closely with software engineers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to enhance system reliability and developer productivity through automation, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of SREs consisting of FTEs and contractors
• Define and assign tasks to SREs, review PRs, and provide feedback
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure in AWS
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions to ensure system health and uptime
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Terragrunt
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and improve development workflows
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurring issues
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness in collaboration with engineering teams
• Drive infrastructure improvements and advocate for best practices in system design and operations
• Establish and manage disaster recovery plans, ensuring system availability during unexpected events

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: BS/BA in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Preferred Education: MA in Computer Science
• Minimum Skills:
  • Argo CD and Argo Workflows
  • IaC: Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Kubernetes and related plugins
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS (EKS, Fargate, Aurora)
  • Security and Compliance
  • Containerization (Docker)
  • Logging and Monitoring Tools
  • Programming Scripting Language
  • DB Management
  • Version Control (Git)
  • Incident Management
• Preferred Skills:
  • Experience with Datadog
  • Experience with Cloudflare
  • Mortgage Domain Knowledge
  • Advanced Security Practices (GuardDuty, Security Hub)
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Experience with workflow automation tools such as Camunda
• Preferred Certification(s): AWS Associate, AWS DevOps Professional