Director, Site Reliability Engineering Digital Assets

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role

As a Director within the TechOps SRE team youll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous critical this exciting role youll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills collaborate across numerous Fidelity teams and continue to grow in a fun collaborative and rapidly changing environment. This is an extraordinary opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments while at the same time helping enable the expansion of our business.

In addition to bringing technical leadership and influence this role also includes supervisory responsibilities for a small group of professionals specializing in site reliability.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring

Leadership & Delivery

• Provide technical and people leadership for a group of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) / Cloud Engineers; hire mentor and develop a high-performing team.

• Set clear goals and expectations; lead performance career growth and team health while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

• Own execution for reliability and cloud delivery initiativesplan and prioritize work remove blockers and ensure predictable outcomes.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering leaders to drive delivery of complex programs and platform improvements.

• Establish operate and continuously improve on-call and incident management practices (escalation paths runbooks postmortems and corrective action tracking).

Reliability & Operational Excellence (SRE)

• Define implement and own service reliability metrics and practices including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets in partnership with engineering teams.

• Lead blameless post-incident reviews and drive remediation to reduce repeat incidents and operational toil.

• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards to improve delivery speed reduce risk and increase system resilience.

Required Technical Expertise

• 8 years of hands-on AWS production experience crafting and managing highly available secure scalable systems (microservices preferred).

• Skilled in crafting and deploying resilient AWS infrastructure across multiple regions and availability zones.

• Production experience running Kubernetes workloads and clusters (EKS preferred) encompassing the creation and upkeep of Helm charts and reusable templates/libraries.

• Hands-on CI/CD experience with Jenkins involving writing and managing declarative pipelines and shared libraries.

• Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.

• Programming proficiency (Python preferred).

• Proficient with Git-based workflows.

• Experience building and maintaining observability (logging monitoring alerting) using tools such as Datadog and Splunk.

• Experience working within Agile delivery models (Kanban/Scrum).

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Terraform experience (preferred).

• CDN experience (e.g. Akamai).

• Kafka experience (Apache/Confluent).

The Team

Fidelity Digital Assets a Fidelity Investments Company is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing trading and servicing digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Fidelity Digital Assets adopts an entrepreneurial culture and startup approach while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firms tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge technology and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance.

Within Fidelity Digital Assets the Technical Operations team plays a key role in our initiative of moving to the cloud. The team uses AWS services to secure our network and scale our applications to ensure their up-time and team members are hands-on engineers specializing in system reliability who promote a DevOps approach with a focus on infrastructure-as-code security and automation.

Fidelitys Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope geographic location candidates relevant experience and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support market-leading retirement generous paid time off and parental leave charitable giving employee match program and educational assistance including student loan repayment tuition reimbursement and learning resources to develop your career. Note the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

Please be advised that Fidelitys business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 the Investment Company Act of 1940 ERISA numerous state laws governing securities investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations including FINRA among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.