Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

PNC

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Pittsburgh, PACleveland, OHBirmingham, ALDallas, TXPhoenix, AZ
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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

The Software Engineering Manager-Site Reliability leads a team within the Site Reliability organization to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms. This role involves managing SRE engineers, providing after-hours operational leadership, and overseeing incident, problem, and change management frameworks. You will drive proactive reliability practices, enhance monitoring and observability, and reduce operational toil through automation. Key responsibilities include leading root cause analysis, managing global 24x7 operations, and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards. The position requires hands-on knowledge of Linux, Windows, OCP, MongoDB, Cassandra, Oracle, SQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka. You will utilize tools like Dynatrace, BigPanda, and Logscale to improve system performance and stability across complex distributed systems, ultimately ensuring a secure and reliable environment for digital experiences.

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What you'll do

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE engineers to ensure the reliability and scalability of mission-critical platforms.
  • Provide after-hours operational leadership and participate in an on-call rotation to support critical production services and major incidents.
  • Manage end-to-end incident response for P1/P2 events, including real-time triage, diagnostics, and stakeholder communication.
  • Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and problem management to implement permanent fixes and eliminate recurring system issues.
  • Oversee change management processes, including validating readiness, risk assessments, and representing the team in CAB reviews.
  • Advance monitoring and observability by building dashboards and tuning alerting frameworks to improve signal-to-noise ratios.
  • 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 application operations.

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 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, Oracle, SQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kafka is a plus (preferred).

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