Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Job Location:
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
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Job Summary
About Lucid
At Lucid we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucids proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture our award-winning vehicles bring our Compromise Nothing approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability design and engineering ambition and Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments combining exceptional range performance design and expansive space in a single experience.
We achieve this through deep vertical integration with design engineering and productionhappening in-houseacross our global offices the world united by a shared commitment to refusing to settle youcanhelpredefinewhatspossible andshape the future of mobility.
Description
The Cloud team at Lucid Motors is currently seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager for leading the reliability scalability and
operational excellence of Lucid Motors cloud infrastructure and production services. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people
management ensuring systems are highly available while developing and empowering a team of SRE engineers.
Responsibilities
SRE Leadership & Reliability Ownership
o Own the availability performance and reliability of cloud services deployed and operated in KSA.
o Define implement and track SRE best practices including SLIs SLOs SLAs and error budgets.
o Lead the architecture and governance of highly available and disaster-resilient systems ensuring DR strategies are tested and
maintained.
o Drive capacity planning auto-scaling and performance tuning across Kubernetes-based platforms.
o Own monitoring observability and alerting using Prometheus Grafana and logging platforms.
o Lead incident response impact assessment and root-cause analysis for complex production issues.
Team Management Mentorship & Growth
o Manage a team of SRE engineers providing technical direction career coaching and performance feedback.
o Review and approve infrastructure code deployment configurations automation scripts and SRE tooling.
o Foster a culture of ownership learning blameless postmortems and continuous improvement.
o Lead hiring onboarding and skill development initiatives for the SRE function.
o Ensure fair sustainable and well-documented on-call rotations.
Cloud Platforms & Automation
o Oversee production environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS.
o Govern Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and configuration management tools.
o Lead CI/CD strategy and implementation using ArgoCD Jenkins Maven Docker and GitLab.
o Ensure secure and reliable deployment of microservices and data pipelines on Kubernetes using Helm.
Platform Services & Data Systems
o Collaborate closely with Product Owners Engineering Managers Security and Architecture teams.
o Oversee the reliability and scaling of platform services such as Kafka Spark Trino Airflow MQTT and microservices ecosystems.
o Ensure stable operations of NoSQL and RDBMS systems including ElasticSearch MongoDB PostgreSQL and MySQL.
o Support distributed data processing and messaging systems addressing performance and scalability challenges.
Requirements and Skills
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or Platform Engineering.
- 24 years of experience managing or leading SRE/DevOps engineers.
- Strong hands-on experience with OCI and AWS cloud platforms.
- Solid expertise in Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency in Python Go Bash/Shell or similar languages.
- Strong Experience with incident management observability and performance optimization.
- Fluent in English with experience collaborating across regions and time zones.
- Experience scaling SRE practices across multiple teams or services.
- Familiarity with compliance security and regulated cloud environments.
Compensation & Benefits: Lucid offers a comprehensive and competitivebenefits packageincluding medical dental and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; and a401(k) retirementplan. Eligible employees may alsoparticipatein Lucids equity program and/or a discretionary annual cash incentive program. Incentive and equity awards if applicable aredeterminedbased on individual performance role scope market considerations and overall company resultsin accordance withthe terms of the applicable plans.
Equal Opportunity: At Lucid we believe diversity strengthens everything we build. Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive workplace for all. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race color national or ethnic origin age religion disability sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression marital status or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal laws and regulations.
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About Company
Lucid is the future of sustainable mobility, designing electric cars that further reimagines the driving experience.
