Manager, SRE Risk Advisory and Oversight

Capital One • McLean, VA

3d • $197,300 - $245,600

About The Position

Capital One is seeking a Manager, SRE Risk Advisory and Oversight to serve as a technical expert providing second-line oversight and effective challenge over Capital One’s software engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. This is an advisory-based role where you will leverage your foundational engineering background to conduct deep-dive technical risk analyses and assessments on cloud implementations, resilience architectures, and emerging automation capabilities (including Generative AI toolsets). You will perform the core technical analytical work and partner closely with Sr. Managers and Directors to synthesize risk findings, develop strategic mitigation recommendations, and build compelling, data-driven narrative materials for executive storytelling. The Technology & Data Risk Management (TDRM) organization is responsible for overseeing cybersecurity, reliability, tech risk, and data management risk, ensuring that business leaders have the necessary tech and data risk information to make informed decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 4 years of experience in Technology Management, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cyber Risk Management
• At least 2 years of experience with cloud implementations (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• At least 1 year of experience with open-source programming languages

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical discipline.
• Professional cloud or infrastructure certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administrator).
• Experience analyzing or utilizing enterprise monitoring, observability, and alerting toolsets (Splunk, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK, PagerDuty).
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud-native systems, containerization stacks (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience drafting technical assessments or presentation materials used to communicate technical findings to senior leadership.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and drive technical alignment across stakeholder groups.
• Prior experience working within financial services or another highly-regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Perform Deep-Dive Risk Analysis: Conduct independent, technical risk assessments of cloud infrastructure architectures, software delivery lifecycles, and observability frameworks to identify systemic resilience and stability risks.
• Support Effective Challenge: Evaluate first-line cloud engineering practices against enterprise risk appetites, ensuring robust strategies are maintained for automation, system resiliency, performance, and monitoring.
• Build Storytelling & Reporting Materials: Partner with team leadership (Sr. Managers and Directors) to translate complex, highly technical engineering data into structured risk reports, presentation decks, and executive storytelling materials.
• SRE Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a trusted technical analyst on core SRE pillars, assessing the design and maturity of Service Level Indicators/Objectives (SLIs/SLOs), error budgets, release pipelines (CI/CD), and toil reduction efforts.
• Evaluate AI & Tech Integration: Actively evaluate the integration of cutting-edge technologies—specifically cloud-native stacks, containerization, and the application of emerging Gen AI/ML tooling within software delivery—to ensure reliable operational boundaries.
• Formulate Risk Recommendations: Collaborate across the second line of defense to design, adjust, and recommend appropriate mitigating controls and guardrails for emerging cloud tech.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Build and maintain collaborative relationships with first-line engineers, architects, and technical owners to ensure risk assessments are thoroughly understood and communicated transparently.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
• Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
• Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager