Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

As the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you'll lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers while remaining a hands-on technical authority for our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. This isn't a purely people-management seat, you're expected to bring the same principal-level SRE depth to automation design and engineering as an individual contributor, while also building the team, setting technical direction, and developing your engineers' careers. This role is centered on reducing manual toil through engineering, applying Google's SRE principles: SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems, and systematic toil reduction, adapted to a regulated brokerage environment. You'll carry two responsibilities at once: driving the automation agenda, building and orchestrating workflows in Rundeck and Airflow to eliminate repetitive work, and growing your team of SRE Automation Engineers into a high-functioning automation practice. You'll guide the design of internal SRE platforms, automate complex workflows, and ensure our Kubernetes-based and colo ecosystems can handle the demands of global financial markets, while owning the people side of the team: mentorship, performance, and growth, and the day-to-day management of the team's Jira board. While this role includes participation in on-call rotations supporting our 24/7 global operations, your primary mission is to build systems that make manual intervention obsolete, and a team capable of sustaining that mission.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of SRE Automation Engineers—setting technical direction, running 1:1s, owning performance management and career development, and managing the team's Jira board to prioritize and track sprint work.
• Engineering & Automation: Lead the design and development of internal tooling and automation—including Rundeck and Airflow-based orchestration—to eliminate repetitive manual toil and improve developer velocity, staying hands-on with the most complex, highest-leverage automation work yourself.
• SRE Practice & Governance: Adapt Google's SRE principles to our environment—defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and using them to guide engineering and operational priorities.
• Infrastructure as Code: Set architectural standards for modular, reusable IaC using Terraform and oversee GitOps workflows via ArgoCD.
• Platform Governance: Review software architecture and Kubernetes metrics to ensure high