Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - VP

Description

You will join the team building Digital Asset Technology for a regulated bank, a senior site reliability role at Vice President level.

The work is to engineer and run resilient, secure and scalable infrastructure for the bank's next generation of digital asset products, covering cloud platforms, production reliability, CI/CD, security automation, disaster recovery and operational resilience.

The role is based in Whippany, NJ.

Responsibilities

• Build, run and improve the cloud and production infrastructure behind digital asset products, with reliability and resilience designed in from the start.
• Keep CI/CD pipelines, source code hosting and development tooling running, and automate infrastructure provisioning and security controls.
• Improve service reliability, observability, performance and capacity by using automation, monitoring and metrics to find and fix weaknesses.
• Work with engineering, architecture, cyber security, infrastructure, risk and operations teams across each stage of the platform lifecycle.
• Manage and reduce risk through assessment, and take ownership of controls for your team's work.
• Advise senior stakeholders, including functional leadership and senior management, on the impact of decisions across functions.
• Set or shape strategy, plan resources, budgets and policies, and drive continuous improvement. Escalate policy or procedure breaches.
• If you manage a team, define roles, plan for future needs, coach people on performance and contribute to pay decisions.
• If you are an individual contributor, act as the subject matter expert, set technical direction, lead multi-year assignments and coach less experienced engineers.
• Use sophisticated analysis and research to compare complex options, define problems and design solutions.

Requirements

• A track record of building and running cloud and infrastructure platforms that stay highly available, including on-call work, incident response, disaster simulations, contingency planning and recovery testing.
• Experience building and maintaining deployment and operations infrastructure, such as CI/CD platforms, source code hosting, development tooling and infrastructure automation, including specialised infrastructure across cloud and colocation environments.
• Proven ownership of security and service infrastructure, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning, access, security controls, cloud security posture and organisation-wide technology policies, and leading CI/CD incident response.
• A commitment to strengthening service reliability, observability, performance, capacity and resilience through automation, monitoring and metrics.
• Strong collaboration skills for working closely with engineering, architecture, cyber security, infrastructure, risk and operations teams.
• You may be assessed on critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.
• Other highly valued skills include:
• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud platform, Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, including hybrid infrastructure across public cloud, enterprise and colocation environments.
• Proven expertise in CI/CD engineering, Git-based source control, secrets and certificate management, infrastructure access controls and automated security controls.
• Solid working knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, disaster recovery, capacity management and production engineering.
• Familiarity with digital asset infrastructure, such as blockchain or DLT nodes, validators, RPC infrastructure, wallets, HSM or MPC services and cryptographic key management.
• A foundation in distributed systems, network reliability, secure engineering, automation and production operations in highly regulated environments.

Conditions

Location: Whippany, NJ office.

Base salary range: $170,000 to $230,000. This covers base salary only and excludes other compensation or benefits.

The role is eligible for an incentive award.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life insurance.
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances.