Cloud Operations and SRE Team Lead

Siemens • Troy, MI

6d • $109,800 - $197,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

Siemens Digital Industries Software is hiring a hands-on Cloud Operations and SRE Team Lead to guide a team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of core applications and cloud infrastructure. The role combines technical leadership with strategic execution, championing SRE practices, automation, and continuous improvement.

The team supports customers running high-fidelity, multi-physics simulations through on-demand compute resources, data management, and simulation tools. The lead will serve as technical authority for AWS-native services, Kubernetes platforms, and enterprise observability, while designing and governing Incident Management processes integrated with the corporate Incident Response Team.

The position is permanent and full-time, with a hybrid work mode that includes working from home and the office. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. The listed annual pay range is $109,800–$197,700, with a target incentive of 5–8% of base salary; the actual offer may vary based on budget, experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, or DevOps/SRE roles.
• At least 2–3 years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity.
• Deep hands-on experience deploying and operating production workloads in AWS, including managed services such as DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and VPC, as well as compute offerings.
• Proven expertise managing production-grade Kubernetes environments using Amazon EKS, including cluster upgrades, networking, and scaling.
• Demonstrated success designing, implementing, and maturing Incident Management frameworks in a complex enterprise environment, including collaboration with centralized or corporate Incident Response teams during high-severity events.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, AWS CloudWatch, and Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
• Strong background with enterprise incident-response and on-call platforms such as PagerDuty.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Advocacy for SRE principles, blameless post-mortems, and robust security practices.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to bridge technical engineering teams and enterprise-wide stakeholders.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SRE and Cloud Operations team, fostering automation, blameless post-mortems, and proactive engineering.
• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of applications hosted in AWS, ensuring robust designs for managed services and containerized workloads.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure the reliability and capacity management of Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Design, implement, and continually refine Incident Management processes, frameworks, and runbooks; establish escalation paths, SLA/SLO tracking, and on-call rotations.
• Bridge engineering teams and the corporate Incident Response Team, integrating alerting, tooling, and communication channels during critical incidents.
• Maintain and evolve telemetry using AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog for metrics, application performance monitoring, logs, and traces.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments and reduce operational toil.

Benefits

• Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits; further details are available through the linked benefits website.
• Target incentive of 5–8% of base salary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed