Site Reliability Engineer 5

Capital One • McLean, VA

9d • $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 leads reliability strategy and architecture for large-scale production systems, improves platform efficiency through automation, and helps establish reliability practices across engineering teams. It also owns strategic work across multi-cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, service-level objectives, capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps.

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, and 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.
• Proven success integrating SRE principles within 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 enhance 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 deep-dive root-cause analyses, and define system-wide outage-prevention strategies.
• Define and govern secure, multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy and its maturity roadmap.
• Establish organization-wide SLOs and drive accountability for reliability and error-budget compliance.
• Serve as a primary technical mentor, expanding 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; eligibility varies by employment status and management level.

What This Job Offers

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