Site Reliability Engineering Team Lead

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OANDA is looking for a passionate Team Lead of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team, organize and monitor work processes, and apply practices to solve difficult problems.

How do we work? 

As an SRE Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading the relationship with our development teams, acting as the champion for reliability best practices including observability, automation, high-availability, fault tolerance, and full-lifecycle ownership. 

The perfect candidate for this role has a strong data-driven approach to improving the performance of our products in on-premise and cloud environments.

In this role, you will: 

• Deploy a team of production engineers to development teams to champion SRE and DevOps best practices and to ensure our products are designed for reliability and high availability

• Provide technical guidance regarding system architecture (analyzing data, making suitable recommendations)

• Ensure security principles and respond to deficiencies

• Make data-driven decisions by pushing monitoring, instrumentation, and observability as core tenets of our development practice

• Demonstrate ability to manage large cross-functional projects, scope, and strategy

• Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

• Be responsible for performance management and budget plans for a department

What skillset you need, to be successful in this role:

• Excellent communication (English) and presentation skills

• Strong leadership skills, including mentoring, team-building, and conflict resolution

• Organizational and strategic management skills, including budget and business planning and forecasting

• Experience with Git based code hosting and collaboration tools (BitBucket, GitHub, etc.)

• Familiarity with monitoring tools and platforms (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix)

• Understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts

• Strong experience working in cloud-native and on-premise environments, in bare metal, virtualized (VM), and containerized/orchestrated deployments (GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, CircleCI, ArgoCD, GoCD, etc.)

• Experience working with Infrastructure as a code and configuration management tool (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, etc.)

• Deep knowledge of Linux

• CI/CD pipeline management

OANDA Global Corporation is a diverse and global team with offices around the world. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to OANDA. We are committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.

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