Site Reliability Engineer Lead, Plant Floor Systems

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The PFS SRE Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Manufacturing Plant Systems (MES, LMIS) across production environments. This role combines leadership, technical expertise, and cross-functional collaboration to drive operational excellence and system resilience.

You Will:

• Lead the team of MES- focused SREs, automation specialist and monitoring analysts.
• Mentor team member and foster a culture of continuous improvement and blameless postmortems.
• Oversee the implementation of observability tools and dashboards for Systems performance and health monitoring.
• Lead incidents response efforts and ensure timely resolution of MES, LMIS related issues.
• Drive automation of deployments, health checks, and recovery processes.
• Collaboration with Development, Project teams to integrate MES into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with MES & Ignition Developers, PFS Operations, and IT Infrastructure teams.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Plant Systems reliability concerns.
• Analyze systems performance trends and forecast future capacity needs.
• Recommend infrastructure improvements to support MES scalability.
• Ensure MES systems adhere to cybersecurity and regulatory standards.
• Support audits and documentation for compliance initiatives.

You Bring:

• 10+ years in IT Operations, SRE, MES support roles with Engineering degree in IT, Electronics or Computer Science.
• Strong knowledge of MES platforms- Rockwell FTPC.
• Strong knowledge of PLC- Rockwell and Siemens
• Experience with monitoring tools (Elastic APM, Grafana, Dynatrace), Automation (Ansible, Python), and CI/CD.
• Excellent Leadership, communication, and incident management skills.

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