VP, Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on, Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering to lead the reliability, availability, and resilience strategy across critical platforms and services. This individual will establish SRE as a core engineering discipline, driving automation, observability, incident management, and reliability-by-design practices across the organization. Key Responsibilities • Define and execute the enterprise SRE strategy, embedding reliability engineering across products, platforms, and services. • Own and govern SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets , ensuring reliability decisions are data-driven. • Drive improvements in service availability, resilience, recoverability, and performance. • Lead the strategy for observability, automation, self-healing capabilities, and resilience engineering platforms. • Oversee incident management, major incident response, post-incident reviews, and chaos engineering initiatives. • Drive operational excellence through automation, toil reduction, and platform standardization. • Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to embed reliability requirements early in the development lifecycle. • Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of SRE leaders and engineers. • Influence technical decisions across teams and stakeholders, driving reliability outcomes in a matrixed environment. • Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). • At least 12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, or related disciplines. • Proven experience building, scaling, or transforming SRE functions within complex enterprise environments. • Strong expertise in: • SRE principles and automation-first operations • Observability and monitoring frameworks • Resilience engineering and incident management • Capacity planning, performance optimization, and disaster recovery • Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budget management • Solid software engineering background with experience in Java and developing or supporting large-scale distributed systems. • Experience designing and implementing observability, automation, self-healing, or reliability platforms. • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering teams and senior leaders without direct authority.