Collaboration & Communication Excellence: They possess strong communication and influencing skills effectively collaborating with senior leadership engineers and cross-functional teams. They clearly articulate complex technical concepts and successfully lead geographically distributed teams while fostering strong partnerships across engineering product operations security and business functions.
Team Development & Cultural Stewardship: The SRE Manager promotes an inclusive and psychologically safe environment mentors team members encourages innovation and builds a culture of continuous learning and blameless improvement.
Technical Acumen & Innovation Driver: They demonstrate deep technical curiosity attention to detail and adaptability guiding teams through evolving technologies and challenges.
Accountability & Ownership: They take full responsibility for the reliability performance and health of critical applications while driving measurable outcomes and team accountability.
SRE Strategy & Best Practices: Expertise in SLOs/SLIs error budgets incident response and reliability improvements.
Architecture & Modern Platform Engineering: Cloud-native microservices Kubernetes hybrid cloud.
Automation CI/CD & Observability: IaC CI/CD monitoring AIOps.
Infrastructure & Security: Cloud security networking databases disaster recovery.
Define SRE Strategy & Vision: Develop and drive the long-term SRE strategy and roadmap for the Marketing and Sales technology portfolio aligning reliability goals with business objectives. Establish enterprise SRE standards including SLOs SLIs and error budgets and translate technical metrics into meaningful business health indicators.
Lead the Paved Road Initiative & Platform Engineering: Build and enhance shared SRE platforms tools and services that enable secure reliable deployments. Promote automation self-service capabilities and an automation-first culture to reduce operational toil and improve efficiency.
Drive Observability AIOps & Performance Strategy: Lead observability initiatives with robust monitoring logging and alerting while advancing AIOps capabilities using AI/ML for anomaly detection predictive insights and proactive risk mitigation.
Architectural Leadership & Collaboration for Reliability: Partner with engineering and architecture teams to design scalable secure and resilient systems that follow SRE best practices.
Oversee Incident Management & Resilience: Lead incident response promote blameless post-mortems improve MTTR drive resilience testing and oversee 24x7 first-responder operations.
Cross-Functional Engagement & Governance: Collaborate across teams to embed SRE practices ensure compliance and lead the SRE Community of Practice.
Reporting Vendor & Budget Management: Deliver executive reporting on system health manage vendor partnerships and optimize SRE budgets and cloud spend.
Required Experience:
Manager
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