Site Reliability Engineer 5

Capital One • McLean, VA

8d • $229,900 - $262,400

About The Position

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help drive a major technology transformation by combining data with emerging technologies. The role focuses on the reliability, resilience, security, and efficiency of large-scale production systems and core infrastructure. The engineer will shape architecture and strategy across teams, lead incident response and prevention, and grow SRE practices and talent across the organization.

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 10 years of experience driving cross-organizational reliability strategy and defining multi-year technical roadmaps.
• At least 8 years of experience in global cloud architecture, optimization, and financial or security governance across multiple cloud providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• At least 4 years of experience defining and driving organization-wide IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices.
• Expertise optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes and serverless systems.
• Proven success integrating SRE principles into mature Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks.
• Expertise implementing comprehensive 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 designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains.
• Experience using Generative AI or headless AI for advanced operations automation.
• Hands-on familiarity applying Generative AI or headless AI to improve automation, code quality, or operational workflows.
• Exceptional strategic and executive-level communication skills to influence technology decisions across the C-suite and partner organizations.
• Deep expertise in systems programming for designing and implementing production-grade platform services.

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 the secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy and maturity roadmap.
• Establish organization-wide service level objectives (SLOs) and drive accountability for reliability and error-budget compliance.
• Serve as a primary technical mentor and scale SRE talent and culture across engineering teams.
• Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
• Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being.

What This Job Offers

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