Site Reliability Engineer 4, Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
Riverwoods, IL
Salary
$179,400–$204,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
20 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays less than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $145,375–$214,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 2107 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1107 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer 4, Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering

The Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering) joins the Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering technology division to evolve the foundational cloud infrastructure layer. This role focuses on observability, connectivity, resilience, and availability for large-scale production systems. You will drive architectural vision, spearhead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil, lead crisis management, and define system-wide outage prevention strategies. Key responsibilities include governing multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code strategies, establishing organization-wide SLOs, and owning proactive capacity forecasting and FinOps. You will utilize high-performance languages, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Generative AI for operations automation. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, CI/CD, Zero Trust security, and secrets management to solve complex reliability and efficiency problems within a multi-cloud environment while mentoring SRE talent across engineering teams.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems.
  • Spearhead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and improve platform efficiency.
  • Lead crisis management, perform deep-dive RCAs, and define outage prevention strategies.
  • Define and govern the secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy.
  • Establish organization-wide SLOs and drive accountability for reliability and error budgets.
  • Serve as a primary technical mentor to scale SRE talent and culture.
  • Own proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategies for core infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
  • At least 8 years of experience leading SRE or DevOps initiatives and defining technical roadmaps.
  • At least 8 years of experience in architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider.
  • Master’s Degree (preferred).
  • 4+ years of experience defining and driving IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices across the organization (preferred).
  • Experience working with 2 or more high-performance languages for building core platform tools and services (preferred).
  • Expert in managing and optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless) (preferred).
  • Proven success leading and integrating SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments (preferred).

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