Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham
Core
Lead the design and operation of highly reliable, observable, and resilient platforms supporting critical business services at scale, championing SRE principles across a large engineering organization.
Role type
VP Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Builds
Highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems; automation and tooling for operational efficiency.
Domain
Financial services / Cloud-native distributed systems
Required skills
Java, Python, or Node.js; Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation); Docker and Kubernetes; AWS, GCP, or Azure; Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, CloudWatch); Linux environment development; Networking protocols (VPC); Load balancing strategies; Database query performance tuning.
Preferred skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; 7 to 10 years of experience.
Technologies
Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, CloudWatch
Responsibilities
Establish service level objectives (SLOs), indicators (SLIs), and error budgets; Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems; Build automation and tooling to reduce operational toil; Improve production readiness through load testing, performance tuning, and chaos engineering; Lead response to complex production incidents and facilitate blameless post-mortems; Design healthy on-call models and escalation paths.
Seniority
VP, strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution