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Employer
About US Bank
U.S. Bank (U.S. Bancorp) is the fifth-largest bank in the United States, providing retail banking, corporate and commercial banking, wealth management, and payment services to millions of customers. Industry: Banking & Financial Services
US Bank currently has
30 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$119,765–$140,900
across 29 roles with salary data.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE ) lead joins the team to oversee production reliability and infrastructure stability. This role involves leading the troubleshooting of complex incidents like application failures and cloud outages while performing root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions. The individual will design monitoring, observability tools, and automated runbooks using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines to reduce manual effort. Key responsibilities include serving as an Incident Commander, mentoring engineers, and managing workloads based on metrics like MTTR and SLA compliance. Technical requirements include expertise in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and Python, along with proficiency in PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Terraform, Ansible, and SQL. The role utilizes tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor to ensure high availability for distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure platforms.
Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex production incidents including application failures and cloud outages.
Conduct root cause analysis to identify impacts and implement permanent corrective actions.
Design and enhance monitoring, observability tools, dashboards, and operational runbooks for platform reliability.
Drive automation initiatives using scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines to reduce manual effort.
Serve as the Incident Commander during major incidents to coordinate cross-functional response teams.
Provide leadership, coaching, and workload management for SRE, DevOps, and production support engineers.
Utilize operational metrics like MTTR and SLA compliance to drive continuous improvement.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Six to eight years of relevant work experience in business/risk analysis, IT Service Management, production support, project management, or application development.
Expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Production Support, Platform Engineering, and Distributed Systems Operations (preferred).
Experience leading technical teams, incident response efforts, workload prioritization, and reliability improvement programs (preferred).
Advanced knowledge of Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Root Cause Analysis methodologies (preferred).
Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native infrastructure platforms (preferred).
Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, and automation frameworks for operational efficiency (preferred).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools like Datadog or Splunk, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible (preferred).