Technical Leader, SIte Reliability Engineer

About the role

For our client, we are seeking a Technical Leader, Site Reliability Engineer to join the team of a leader in the Telecommunications & Hardware space. This role will provide technical leadership for a large-scale Kubernetes platform supporting mission-critical workloads in a complex, cloud-native environment. The position will focus on strengthening reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence while partnering closely with engineering teams to advance platform strategy and incident response. As a senior technical leader, you will guide architecture decisions, influence platform roadmaps, and mentor engineers to improve delivery and operational maturity across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and optimization of Kubernetes platform for mission-critical workloads.
• Drive initiatives to enhance reliability, security, and scalability for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute platform roadmaps and reliability objectives.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents and architecture reviews.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering practices through hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 12+ years of large-scale distributed systems experience.
• 7+ years of experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure in production environments.

Skills

• Expertise in networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms and service mesh.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, including Terraform and ArgoCD.
• Experience with SRE practices such as SLOs/SLIs and incident management.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to influence teams and stakeholders.
• Software engineering experience in Go, Python, or similar languages for automation.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on mission-critical government projects.
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional team partnerships.
• Leadership opportunities in mentoring and project initiatives.

Pay

Compensation: $214,100 – $309,800 annually.