Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help drive a major transformation by applying data and emerging technologies to real customer and business needs. The role is part of Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering and focuses on the architecture, resilience, security, and operational efficiency of large-scale production systems and cloud platforms.

The engineer will set architectural direction for resilient production systems, advance automation, and lead incident management and outage prevention. The role also governs multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code strategy, establishes organization-wide reliability objectives, mentors SRE talent, and owns capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure. The position may be based in McLean, Virginia, or Richmond, Virginia; salary ranges depend on location. It is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• At least 8 years of experience leading SRE or DevOps initiatives and defining technical roadmaps.
• At least 8 years of experience architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP).

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• 4 or more years of experience defining and driving organization-wide infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD strategies and best practices.
• Experience working with two or more high-performance programming languages to build core platform tools and services.
• Expertise managing and optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes and serverless systems.
• Success leading and integrating SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks.
• Expertise implementing cloud security and compliance governance, including Zero Trust and secrets management.
• Significant contribution to the open-source community or strategic internal platform innovation.
• Track record of designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains.
• Experience using Generative AI or Headless AI for advanced operations automation.
• Exceptional technical and strategic communication skills to drive architectural consensus across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems.
• Lead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and improve platform efficiency.
• Lead crisis management and in-depth root-cause analysis, and define system-wide outage-prevention strategies.
• Define and govern secure, multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code strategy and its maturity roadmap.
• Establish organization-wide service-level objectives and drive accountability for reliability and error-budget compliance.
• Serve as a primary technical mentor and develop SRE talent and culture across engineering teams.
• Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being; eligibility varies by employment status and management level.
• Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.

What This Job Offers

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