Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Capital One • McLean, VA

1d • $179,400 - $225,100

About The Position

Capital One is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help drive a major transformation by combining data with emerging technologies. The role focuses on the architectural vision, reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency of large-scale production systems and core infrastructure. The engineer will define and govern secure multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code strategy, establish organization-wide reliability objectives, lead incident response and prevention, and mentor SRE talent across engineering teams.

The role also owns proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy. It requires extensive experience leading SRE or DevOps initiatives and architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider. The position is listed with location-specific full-time annual salary ranges of $197,300–$225,100 in McLean, Virginia, and $179,400–$204,700 in Richmond, Virginia, and is eligible for performance-based incentives that may include cash bonuses or long-term incentives.

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 such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• At least 4 years of experience defining and driving infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD strategies and best practices across an organization.
• Experience working with two or more high-performance 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.
• Proven success leading and integrating SRE principles in mature Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks.
• Expertise implementing comprehensive security and compliance governance in cloud environments, including Zero Trust and secrets management.
• Significant contributions to the open-source community or strategic internal platform innovation.
• A proven track record of designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains.
• Experience leveraging 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 scale SRE talent and culture across engineering teams.
• Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being.
• Eligibility for 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