Merative
Site Reliability and DevOps Engineering Lead
Remote Site Reliability Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 20, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Site Reliability and DevOps Engineering Lead
Requirements and responsibilities
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People & Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and grow Platform / DevOps engineers
- Build a high-performing Platform team
- Drive accountability for platform reliability and delivery outcomes
- Lead vendors to deliver capabilities in production.
People & Team Leadership
- Ensure platform capabilities accelerate product delivery, remove bottlenecks.
- Defines and enforces platform engineering standards and DevOps practices across all teams and vendors
- Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost efficiency
- Define operational standards, runbooks, and reliability practices
- Accountable for platform reliability outcomes at enterprise/product level
Platform Strategy and Leadership
- Act as technical authority across platform, reliability, and delivery
- Define platform strategy and roadmap
- Govern delivery across internal teams and vendors
Platform Reliability Ownership
- Own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Lead resilience engineering, observability, and failure design
- Drive proactive risk reduction and continuous improvement
- Own incident management frameworks and continuous improvement
CI/CD and Release Engineering
- Own end-to-end pipeline architecture and release automation
- Standardize, secure, and fully automate pipelines
- Drive continuous integration, delivery, and validation practices
Incident Leadership
- Lead Sev1 response, escalation, and recovery
- Own RCA and drive systemic fixes (not point fixes)
Incident Leadership
- Embed AI into monitoring, risk prediction, and CI/CD optimization
- Drive automation to reduce operational toil and improve decision-making
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6-10 years of hands-on experience in software operations, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, including managing large-scale, mission-critical systems.
- Clear and confident communication skills with ability to lead teams and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and architecture teams.
- Proven track record ensuring high availability and performance in production environments, with expertise in fault-tolerant, distributed system design.
- Excellent understanding of modern software delivery pipelines and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, configuration management, and version control (Git).
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with experience diagnosing complex system issues under pressure and driving them to resolution.
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, or Java) for automation and tool integration.
- Self-driven and proactive, with a passion for automating manual processes and continuously improving systems to enhance reliability and team productivity.
Proven experience:
- Releasing into and running mission-critical, high-availability SaaS platforms
- Technically leading a Platform team and influence stakeholders and vendors.
- Stakeholder engagement across Product, Architecture, and Operations
Deep expertise in:
- Site Reliability Engineering (SLI/SLO, error budgets, incident management)
- DevOps operating models and platform engineering (engineering transformation)
- CI/CD architecture and release automation
- Cloud, Systems & Infrastructure (DB2, Oracle, Infinispan, OpenLiberty)
- Automation-first engineering with proven usage of AI (self-healing, triage)
- Java application platforms and runtimes (performance tuning, troubleshooting, production operations)
Strong experience with:
- Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Distributed systems and fault-tolerant architectures
- Performance Tuning and Scaling
- Database optimisation (DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
- Multi-region / active-active environments
- Monitoring, logging, tracing frameworks
- Experience embedding reliability practices into the SDLC
Hands-on with:
- DB2, Oracle, Infinispan, OpenLiberty, Azure
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
Benefits
- Remote first / work from home culture
- Flexible vacation to help you rest, recharge, and connect with loved ones
- Paid leave benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan
- Infertility benefits
- Tuition reimbursement, life insurance, EAP – and more!
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