Site Reliability Engineer 5

Capital One Financial

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VA
Salary
$229,900–$262,400 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $145,000–$217,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 2232 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1142 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer 5

The Site Reliability Engineer 5 joins a team focused on driving a major transformation by marrying data with emerging technologies. This role involves spearheading the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems and defining a secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code strategy. Key responsibilities include leading crisis management, performing root cause analysis, establishing organization-wide SLOs, and managing proactive capacity forecasting and FinOps strategies. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP to optimize complex, high-scale distributed systems. Required technical skills include Kubernetes, Serverless, CI/CD, and systems programming. Additionally, the role leverages Generative AI and Headless AI for advanced operations automation while ensuring security compliance through Zero Trust and Secrets Management within a mature Agile development environment.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187850 from 122 postings across 32 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 error budget compliance.
  • Serve as a primary technical mentor to scale SRE talent and culture.
  • Implement 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.
  • Master’s Degree (preferred).
  • At least 10 years of experience driving cross-organizational reliability strategy and defining multi-year technical roadmaps.
  • At least 8 years of experience in global cloud architecture, optimization, and financial or security governance across multiple cloud providers.
  • 4+ years of experience defining and driving organization-wide IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices (preferred).
  • Expert in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures like Kubernetes and Serverless (preferred).
  • Proven success leading the integration of SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments (preferred).
  • Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks (preferred).

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