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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
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The Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering) joins a team focused on driving a major transformation for large-scale production systems. This role involves spearheading strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil, leading crisis management, and defining system-wide outage prevention strategies. You will drive the architectural vision for resilient systems, govern secure multi-cloud IaC strategies, and establish organization-wide SLOs. Key responsibilities include proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy. The position requires expertise in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP, along with high-performance languages, Kubernetes, and Serverless architectures. You will implement observability frameworks, Zero Trust security, and Secrets Management. The work centers on solving complex business problems by marrying data with emerging technologies to ensure reliability and efficiency across critical production platforms.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $187850 from 116 postings across 33 companies.
Drive 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 error budget compliance.
Serve as a primary technical mentor to scale SRE talent and culture.
Own proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
Master’s Degree (preferred).
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 (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP).
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).
AWS
Microsoft Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
IaC
CI/CD
Serverless
Observability
FinOps
Zero Trust
Secrets Management
Agile
Scrum
Generative AI
Distributed Systems