Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Center

PNC

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Cleveland, OHBirmingham, ALPittsburgh, PADallas, TXDenver, COPhoenix, AZ
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113 days ago
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PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the U.S., based in Pittsburgh, PA, it provides retail banking, corporate banking, and asset management.

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TL;DR · Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Center

The Software Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Center leads a team within the Information Technology Group to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms. You will manage SRE engineers, providing technical leadership for incident management, root cause analysis, and change management. Day-to-day responsibilities include overseeing production support for complex distributed systems, driving automation to reduce operational toil, and enhancing monitoring and observability. You will utilize tools such as Dynatrace, BigPanda, Logscale, and enterprise platforms while working with Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka. This role solves the business problem of maintaining high availability and performance for digital experiences by fostering a blameless culture of continuous learning and implementing proactive reliability practices across infrastructure, applications, and security layers.

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What you'll do

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE engineers to ensure production stability and operational excellence.
  • Provide after-hours operational leadership and participate in an on-call rotation for critical production services.
  • Manage end-to-end incident response for major incidents, including real-time triage, diagnostics, and stakeholder communication.
  • Lead root cause analysis (RCA) efforts to identify trends and implement permanent fixes for recurring issues.
  • Oversee change management and release execution to ensure safe, compliant, and risk-assessed production updates.
  • Advance monitoring and observability by building dashboards and tuning alerts to detect issues proactively.
  • Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual toil in incident remediation, deployment, and validation processes.
  • Ensure adherence to enterprise governance, risk, and compliance standards for all infrastructure and applications.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a university or college degree or a comparable combination of education, certifications, and experience.
  • Must have 5+ years of industry-relevant experience.
  • Must have at least 3 years of prior management experience.
  • Must have strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Support, or DevOps.
  • Must have proven ability to lead teams in high-availability, enterprise environments.
  • Must have a deep understanding of incident, problem, and change management frameworks.
  • Must have hands-on knowledge of monitoring tools, cloud/infrastructure platforms, and automation.
  • Experience with OCP, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka is a plus (preferred).

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