Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Bank of America · Jersey City, NJ · 2 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior technical authority for GCP platform reliability, resiliency, observability, automation, and production readiness
- Design and implement advanced reliability patterns for Azure landing zones, private networking, DNS, firewalls, regional resiliency, service health checks, and workload onboarding
- Lead complex platform reliability initiatives such as secondary-region readiness, egress/ingress observability, private DNS resolver monitoring, GenAI platform health checks, and enterprise dashboard automation
- Define and mature SLIs, SLOs, reliability indicators, alerting standards, and service health reporting for Azure platform services
- Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation frameworks, and CI/CD patterns that improve consistency, compliance, and operational quality
- Drive observability improvements using Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Resource Graph, dashboards, and enterprise monitoring tools
- Identify systemic reliability risks and translate them into engineering roadmaps, remediation plans, automation opportunities, and operational controls
- Lead deep technical investigations for major incidents, recurring problems, platform defects, or service degradation events
- Partner with security and governance teams to integrate IAM, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, control validation, and audit readiness into Azure platform operations
- Provide technical design input for new Azure services and workloads to ensure operational readiness before production adoption
- Mentor SRE engineers and raise the technical bar for automation, troubleshooting, documentation, resiliency design, and production support
- Create executive-ready technical summaries, reliability narratives, and recommendations for leadership review
- Establish reusable standards for runbooks, dashboards, health checks, problem records, post-incident reviews, and production-readiness gates
- Design solutions to visualize key production support metrics enabling Operational Readiness and Site Reliability Engineer teams to identify scenarios requiring intervention
- Develop software solutions and/or improved processes to address work identified as 'toil' by collaborating with key partners to identify, track and remediate processes to free time allocated to reliability
- Publish error budgets, prioritize reliability stories that fall below Service Level Objective (SLO) thresholds, and suggest code optimizations, additional instrumentation, and/or logging structures to gain service reliability visibility
- Assess monitoring for new changes with development partners and work with monitoring tools team to monitor dashboards and enhance application and system monitoring designs
- Engage as a subject matter expert in incident triage efforts, failure scenario modeling, and work with the Problem Manager to diagnose root causes for complex/high impact incident/problem management investigations
- Collaborate with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and develop Service Level Indicators and SLOs to measure/improve the reliability of the services they support
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or cloud operations, with exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including practical use of Terraform or Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure provisioning
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including version control, code quality, and basic testing practices for infrastructure code
- Experience developing and maintaining Terraform modules and infrastructure configurations to support automated cloud environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, including automated build, test, and release processes
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including integrating security and compliance checks into automated workflows
- Good understanding of GCP services and cloud architecture fundamentals, including networking (VPCs, IAM, load balancing)
- Exposure to policy-as-code, governance, and compliance requirements in enterprise environments
- Experience supporting automation and standardization efforts to improve consistency and efficiency in cloud deployments
- Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability tools to support system reliability and performance
- Hands-on experience with incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis in cloud or distributed systems
Desired Qualifications
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, architecture, and security teams to support reliable and secure platform operations
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to work within cross-functional teams and document technical solutions clearly
- Interest in learning and applying emerging technologies and automation techniques (including AI/ML where applicable) to improve platform reliability