Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Python, or Node.js) with a focus on writing clean, maintainable code for tooling and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes (K8s), including service meshes and ingress controllers.
• Advanced experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure), specifically building and operating highly resilient cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency with Observability stacks, including distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or CloudWatch)
• Experience with automated testing and SDLC concepts, developing applications in a Linux environment, and sound knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software design.
• Knowledge of networking protocols(VPC) , load balancing strategies in a distributed systems environment , database query performance tuning and identify cause for lagging.

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, System Engineering, or a related technical field that involves programming.
• 7 to 10 years of experience.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with engineering leadership to establish service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Collaborate with product developers to architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems. Conduct architectural reviews and introduce patterns like circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and rate limiting.
• Reduce operational toil by building automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities that remove repetitive manual work.
• Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, capacity forecasting, chaos engineering and reliability reviews.
• Lead the response to complex, multi-system production incidents. Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and drive long-term preventative actions.
• Promote sustainable operations by helping design healthy on-call models, clear escalation paths, and balanced pager responsibilities.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunities for growth professionally and personally.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Firmwide networks.
• Benefits, wellness, and personal finance offerings.
• Mindfulness programs.