VP_SRE (Only from Investment Bank or Product Company)

12+ Years of Experience.

Looking for SRE Role

? Help define, drive and implement the SRE strategy

? Promote an Automate-first culture in operating services, through the reduction of toil

? Develop methodologies and strategies for identification of toil-heavy and inefficient

processes, and for the automation and elimination of toil, delay and redundancy in such

processes.

? Assist in developing engineering and operational service metrics with actionable plans to

improve operational efficiency, enhance service quality/SLA, and optimize delivery

? Working with all parties, develop and implement SLOs for critical services

? Define monitoring strategy with Engineering and implement appropriate capabilities

? Design and implement reliability improvements

? Conduct capacity planning

? Perform chaos engineering exercises

? Lead architectural reviews for reliability

? Drive continuous improvement from incidents

? Contribute to the Test and Deployment processes, ensuring that they are as reliable and

automated as possible

Skills and qualifications

? A bachelors degree or higher in computer science, information systems, or a related field,

or equivalent work experience

? Hands on SRE Practitioner with 5+ years working experience in SRE role.

? Practical experience defining and implementing Service Level Objectives, and operating to

Error Budgets

? Have implemented and operated monitoring and observability technologies for a wide range

of enterprise-grade Production systems.

? Experience in a corporate software development lifecycle methodology. Some experience

implementing gitops a plus

? Demonstrates a strong understanding of how technical systems work and interact

? Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of all critical Production Support processes

? 2+ years of experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure etc.).

Knowledge Required

? Comprehensive understanding of SRE principles and ability to evangelise

? Working knowledge of modern observability tooling, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus,

Grafana, and associated projects

? Experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and design

? Extensive knowledge of Configuration Management Solutions such as Ansible, Chef or

Puppet