Job Description

Role: Lead SRE

Location: Multiple

Mode: Hybrid

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Role Description:

We are seeking an experienced

SRE Strategist

to lead the reliability and operational excellence agenda for our Enterprise Data Platforms spanning

GCP cloud-native systems

. This strategic leadership role will help instill Google's SRE principles across diverse data engineering teams, uplift our platform reliability posture, and spearhead the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for SRE. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of modern SRE practices, demonstrate a proven ability to scale SRE capabilities in large enterprises, and evangelise a data-driven approach to resilience engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and drive SRE strategy

for enterprise data platforms on

GCP

, aligning with business goals and reliability needs. Act as a

trusted advisor

to platform teams, embedding

SRE mindset, best practices, and golden signals

into their SDLC and operational processes. Set up and lead a

Site Reliability Engineering CoE

, delivering reusable tools,

runbooks

,

blueprints

, and

platform accelerators

to scale SRE adoption across the organisation. Partner with product and platform owners to

prioritise and structure SRE backlogs

, formulate

roadmaps

, and help teams move from reactive ops to proactive reliability engineering. Define and track

SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

across critical data services, enabling data-driven decision making around availability and performance. Drive

incident response maturity

, including chaos engineering, incident retrospectives, and blameless postmortems. Foster a

reliability culture

through coaching, workshops, and cross-functional forums. Build strategic relationships across engineering, data governance, security, and architecture teams to ensure

reliability is baked in

, not bolted on.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

3+ years in SRE leadership

or SRE strategy roles. Strong familiarity with

Google SRE principles

and practical experience applying them in complex enterprise settings. Proven track record in

establishing and scaling SRE teams

. Experience with

GCP services

like Cloud Build, GCS, CloudSQL, Cloud Functions, and GCP logging & monitoring. Deep experience with

observability stacks

such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and GCP native solutions. Skilled in

Infrastructure as Code

using tools like

Terraform

, and working knowledge of automation in CI/CD environments.

Key Competencies & Skills:

Strong leadership,

influence without authority

, and mentoring capabilities. Hands-on scripting and automation skills in

Python

, with secondary languages like Go or Java a plus. Familiarity with

incident and problem management frameworks

in enterprise environments. Ability to define and execute a

platform-wide reliability roadmap

in alignment with architectural and business objectives.

Nice to Have:

Exposure to

secrets management

tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault). Experience with

tracing and APM tools

like Google Cloud Trace or Honeycomb. Background in data governance, data pipelines, and security standards for data products.
Job Type: Permanent

Pay: ?4,000,000.00 - ?5,000,000.00 per year

Schedule:

Day shift Monday to Friday
Experience:

SRE leadership or SRE strategy: 3 years (Required) Google SRE principles : 3 years (Required) GCP services : 3 years (Required) Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform: 5 years (Required) Python: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote