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Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Onsite – Cincinnati, OH

Industry: National Banking / Financial Services

About the Role:

A leading National Bank is forming a new, high-impact engineering team, and we are seeking a very senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to take on a leadership position. This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a team responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical banking systems.

The ideal candidate is a proven technical leader who thrives in complex environments and has a track record of building high-performing teams. You will set the vision for operational excellence, drive modern SRE practices, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with critical reliability initiatives.
Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & Strategy
  
  • Lead and mentor a team of SREs, fostering a culture of reliability, accountability, and innovation.
  • Define reliability goals, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, and enforce best practices.
  • Partner with development, infrastructure, and business leaders to align SRE practices with organizational strategy.
• Reliability Engineering
  
  • Build and maintain resilient, scalable systems with a focus on automation and observability.
  • Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
  • Implement and manage monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure high availability.
• Delivery & Execution
  
  • Champion cloud-native architectures and DevOps/SRE best practices.
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related engineering roles.
• 5+ years of proven leadership experience building and leading SRE or DevOps teams.
• Strong expertise in system reliability, monitoring, observability, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Go, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to align technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with site reliability frameworks such as Google SRE principles.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and risk management in mission-critical environments.

Why Join

• Leadership from day one – shape a new SRE team and define reliability strategy.
• High visibility role in a leading National Bank.
• Work on mission-critical systems that impact millions of customers.
• Competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and career growth.

Shortened External Posting (Candidate-Friendly)Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Location: Onsite – Cincinnati, OH
Industry: National Banking / Financial Services
Are you ready to lead a brand-new Site Reliability Engineering team at a top National Bank? We’re seeking a very senior SRE to take on a hands-on leadership role in Cincinnati. This is your chance to set the reliability strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure mission-critical banking systems remain secure, scalable, and available.
What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a new team of SREs.
• Define and deliver SRE strategy, including SLIs/SLOs.
• Build scalable, resilient systems with automation and observability.
• Champion incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering best practices.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years in a leadership role guiding teams and delivery.
• Expertise in monitoring, automation, CI/CD, containers, and cloud platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Why Join Us

• Lead a new, high-impact team from day one.
• High visibility role in financial services.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

�� Ready to lead? Apply today and help us build a world-class reliability engineering practice.

 
What You'll Get
 
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• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Optional life and disability insurance provided
• 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
• Paid vacation time
• Paid Bench time
• Training allowance offering
• You'll be eligible to earn referral bonuses!

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