Lead Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of its critical systems. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams to design, implement, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available systems on AWS using Terraform.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs; lead incident response and root‑cause analysis.
• Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Automate deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability best practices and conduct code reviews.
• Integrate security testing (SAST/DAST) into CI/CD pipelines and manage vulnerability remediation.
• Mentor junior SRE staff and promote SRE culture across the organization.

Required profile

• Proven experience in site reliability engineering or a related DevOps role.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, especially AWS.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform.
• Ability to lead incident response and drive continuous improvement.

Required skills

• Java
• Python
• Node.js
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems
• AWS services: Lambda, ECS, EC2, Fargate, S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, VPC, Route53, CloudFront, API Gateway, CloudWatch, X‑Ray
• Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines with security testing (SAST/DAST)