SRE Lead

Role: SRE Lead

Location: Alpharetta GA
Experience Level: Senior / Lead

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to own and drive the reliability scalability and operational excellence of cloud-native platforms. This role combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership responsible for managing the SRE team while setting best practices across reliability engineering automation observability and incident management.

The SRE Lead will work closely with engineering security and platform teams to ensure systems are resilient secure and performant at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Ownership

• Lead and manage the SRE team owning end-to-end SRE responsibilities.

• Define SRE standards reliability goals (SLIs/SLOs) and operational best practices.

• Mentor engineers and drive a culture of automation resilience and continuous improvement.

• Act as a key escalation point during critical incidents and outages.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Design implement and manage cloud infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services:

  • Compute Engine GKE VPC Cloud IAM Cloud Storage Cloud SQL.

• Ensure high availability fault tolerance and scalability across environments.

Networking & Connectivity

• Architect and manage:

  • VPC peering Shared VPCs

  • Firewall rules Load Balancers DNS

  • VPN tunnels and secure hybrid connectivity

Security & Identity

• Debug and manage IAM policies and service accounts.

• Implement Workload Identity Federation and least-privilege access models.

• Partner with security teams to enforce cloud security best practices.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules with strong state management and dependency handling.

• Apply DRY principles across infrastructure code.

• Lead infrastructure automation initiatives to reduce manual intervention.

CI/CD & Deployment Strategies

• Design and maintain pipelines using:

  • Jenkins (Declarative & Scripted)

  • GitHub Actions (YAML workflows)

• Implement advanced deployment strategies:

  • Canary releases

  • Blue/Green deployments

  • Artifact management using Docker and Helm

Linux & Systems Engineering (Must-Have)

• Deep hands-on expertise with RHEL Ubuntu and CentOS.

• Kernel tuning systemd storage management (LVM).

• OS-level performance optimization and troubleshooting.

Observability & Debugging

• Diagnose and resolve CPU memory disk and I/O bottlenecks.

• Analyze system and application logs.

• Troubleshoot boot issues and low-level system failures.

• Drive root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.

Programming & Scripting (Must-Have)

• Strong proficiency in Python Go (Golang) or Java for automation and tooling.

Required Skills

• Proven experience leading SRE or Platform Engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in GCP infrastructure and Kubernetes (GKE).

• Advanced Linux systems knowledge.

• Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD mastery.

• Strong debugging incident response and reliability engineering skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications:

  • Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

  • Google Cloud Architect

  • CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices.

• Familiarity with:

  • ITIL processes

  • Change Advisory Board (CAB)

  • Incident and problem management frameworks