Head of Site Reliability Engineering – SRE

• Define, lead, and evolve our global reliability strategy.
• Drive operational excellence, service reliability, observability, automation, and continuous improvement across our technology landscape.
• Work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Technology Operations teams to establish and embed modern SRE practices that enable highly reliable, scalable, and resilient services while fostering a culture of shared ownership and continuous learning.
• Drive adoption of SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction).
• Establish observability and monitoring standards.
• Lead automation-first operations.
• Improve incident and problem management maturity.
• Partner with software and infrastructure engineering teams to embed reliability into the product lifecycle.
• Establish SRE governance, standards, and operating model.

Requirements

• Proven experience building, leading, and developing Site Reliability Engineering or Production Engineering teams, with a strong understanding of SRE principles including service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and toil reduction.
• Extensive experience driving automation initiatives, supported by strong scripting and development capabilities using technologies such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).
• Robust knowledge of observability and monitoring practices, with hands-on experience implementing and managing platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Good understanding of CI/CD tooling and modern software delivery practices, including Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps.
• A background spanning both software engineering and technology operations environments.
• Professional certifications in cloud technologies, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or reliability engineering disciplines.
• Passionate about reliability, resilience, automation, and continuous improvement.
• A strategic thinker who can balance long-term vision with operational delivery.

Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering principles, including SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, while driving automation and observability initiatives. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in establishing reliable and resilient technology operations.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Site Reliability Engineering Leadership
• Automation Initiatives
• Observability and Monitoring Practices
• CI/CD Tooling Experience
• Cloud Technology Certifications

Hard Skills

• Site Reliability Engineering Principles
• SLOs
• SLIs
• Error Budgets
• Automation Scripting
• Python
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Terraform
• Ansible Automation Platform

Soft Skills

• Strategic Thinking
• Passion for Continuous Improvement

Certifications & Qualifications

• Cloud Technologies
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Platform Engineering
• Reliability Engineering

Industry Keywords

• Operational Excellence
• Service Reliability
• Continuous Improvement
• Incident Management
• Problem Management

Tools & Technologies

• Dynatrace
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Splunk
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI
• Azure DevOps

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