SRE Lead

MSP • Charlotte, NC

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking an SRE Lead for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution. This role involves designing and leading the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy across banking and payments. The ideal candidate will establish SRE standards, drive automation, and implement learning practices to improve resilience, reduce incidents, and scale engineering-led operations within a large, regulated enterprise environment.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Successfully led an SRE transformation in a large regulated enterprise
• Implemented SLO/SLI/error-budget frameworks at scale
• Skilled in resilient engineering, risk control, and scaling operations
• Must have experience in all four key pillars of Site Reliability Engineering
• Ability to solve problems in more ways than a hands-on engineer

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrate flexibility, navigate ambiguity, and quickly establish credibility among technical peers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to show tangible reductions in incidents, MTTR, operational toil, and reliability risk
• Experience influencing senior executives to change how reliability is measured and funded

Responsibilities

• Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy, automation, reliability by design, and observability
• Reduce incidents and improve recovery time
• Scale engineering-led operations across complex banking and payments environments
• Turn a traditional support organization into a data-driven reliability engineering function

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed