mtb
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Buffalo, NY
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- Experience leading SRE or Production Engineering organizations.
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with scripting and automation technologies including PowerShell, Python, Bash, and APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and Platform Engineering practices.
- Experience implementing operational AI use cases including incident analysis, observability analytics, and automated diagnostics.
- Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience preferred.
Full description
OverviewThe Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager leads teams responsible for the reliability, availability, performance, and operational excellence of critical business applications and platforms. This role combines engineering leadership with deep expertise in production operations, observability, automation, incident management, and cloud technologies. The SRE Manager partners with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Product, and Business stakeholders to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, secure, and supportable. The role is accountable for driving operational excellence through automation, reliability engineering practices, and continuous improvement while developing high-performing SRE and Production Support teams.
Primary ResponsibilitiesReliability & Operational Excellence
- Define and execute SRE strategies that improve system reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Establish and govern Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational health metrics.
- Lead production readiness reviews, disaster recovery testing, resilience assessments, and operational risk mitigation activities.
- Drive continuous improvement of application stability, service availability, and customer experience.Incident & Problem Management
- Lead major incident response and escalation management for critical production issues.
- Oversee root cause analysis (RCA) processes and ensure corrective actions are implemented and tracked to completion.
- Drive reduction of recurring incidents through engineering improvements, automation, and proactive monitoring.
- Provide executive-level communication during significant incidents and service disruptions.Observability & Automation
- Establish monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and observability standards across supported platforms.
- Lead implementation of dashboards and operational metrics that provide visibility into service health and customer impact.
- Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual operational effort, improve recovery times, and increase engineering efficiency.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD integration, automated remediation, and self-service operational capabilities.Cloud & Platform Reliability
- Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to support cloud-native and hybrid application environments.
- Ensure applications are designed and operated using resilient, scalable, and supportable architectures.
- Support modernization initiatives involving Azure cloud services, containers, APIs, microservices, and platform engineering practices.