Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Global Operations Lead - Location Negotiable / Remote

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We are currently looking for professionals for our Managed eXtended Detection & Response aka “MxDR” practice with extensive experience in the following:

Job Description for Global Operations Lead - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

This is a Sr. SRE manager role in the MxDR engineering team based out of North America responsible for leading global SRE operations. Embodying a Servant Leadership philosophy, you will help build a culture of speed, innovation, collaboration, and ownership moving forward. You will be responsible for building a strong team of contributors who work well together and raise the bar for a good working environment. As an engineering leader, you will report to the Director of engineering and will:

• Focus on the organizational health while meeting or exceeding engineering deliverable goals. This includes working across the organization and time zones (NAM and the globe) for collaboration
• Provide coaching, mentorship and leadership to the teams and motivate them to perform at their best
• Collaborate closely with senior technical leadership, product owners and other engineering teams drive the operational and observability capabilities of the MxDR Platform and Services.
• Leading teams responsible for customer facing platform, applications, and services in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Take ownership in driving and evolving the roadmap for the SRE Organization: particularly in the areas of infrastructure automation, observability, and AI Ops
• Design & map Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to achieve organization mission
• Leading teams focused on building scalable cloud-based solutions
• Strong written & verbal communication and organizational skills are essential
• Bring optimization and effectiveness in process and delivery of work

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in management of reliability engineers and engineering teams in a distributed capacity
• 5+ years of experience of leading teams via Agile process (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban)
• 5+ years of experience of leading teams in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment
• 5+ years of experience in leading teams with a focus on CICD
• 5+ years of proven experience working effectively with distributed teams across North America and/or India and other countries around the globe

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical knowledge
• Demonstrable ability to deliver large scale solutions that are easily understandable, maintainable, and diagnosable
• Experience with deploying, supporting, and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
• Experience analyzing complex application, database, network, and OS issues across a distributed large scale customer facing system
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture
• Experience with security compliance programs such as ISO, PCI, SOC 1 & 2, is strongly preferred
• Experience in CyberSecurity industry
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Detail orientation and experience balancing multiple tasks and deadlines
• Ability interact with internal and external stakeholders at executive level
• Experience working with technical teams to build technology-based tools/solutions that will reduce costs and improve the overall program
• Experience in understanding test metrics, release process and developing them
• Proven successful delivery through professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Professional Skill Requirements:

• Uncommon ability and motivation to tackle problems and learn fast
• Ability to perform at a high level within a technical team
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication and relationship skills
• Distributed teamwork

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Education Statement:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

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