Site Reliability Engineering Manager
DriveWealth
Chicago, United States Posted October 4, 2026
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Salary Range
$150,000 - $170,000
Job Description
Join our team as a Site Reliability Engineering Manager, where you'll lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers and drive the automation agenda for our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. You'll be a hands-on technical authority, guiding the design of internal SRE platforms, automating complex workflows, and ensuring our ecosystems can handle the demands of global financial markets. You'll also manage and mentor your team, set technical direction, and oversee performance management and career development.
- Lead a team of SRE Automation Engineers, setting technical direction and developing engineers' careers while remaining a hands-on technical authority.
- Drive the automation agenda by building and orchestrating workflows in Rundeck and Airflow to eliminate repetitive work, and growing the team into a high-functioning automation practice.
- Guide the design of internal SRE platforms, automate complex workflows, and ensure our Kubernetes-based and colo ecosystems can handle the demands of global financial markets.
- Code Proficiency: Strong scripting and development skills in Python or Golang, along with Bash and Ansible
- Modern CI/CD & GitOps: Experience building secure, automated delivery pipelines and operating GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
- Security Mindset: Experience with secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and securing the software supply chain
- Cloud Native Expertise (AWS): Strong grasp of AWS core services, security, and high-availability patterns. Proficiency with boto3 and AWS CLI for automation
- AI & Prompt Engineering: Familiarity with using LLMs, Public MCPs, or Bedrock Agent Core to enhance SRE workflows
- People Leadership: Prior experience managing or leading SRE/DevOps engineers, ideally in a fintech or highly regulated environment. Able to flex between hands-on principal-level engineering and coaching and developing a team
- Linux & Networking Mastery: Proficient in Linux administration with a deep understanding of the TCP/IP stack, OSI model, DNS, and network troubleshooting
- Data & Middleware & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Rundeck and Airflow for job orchestration and automation, plus experience managing Kafka, MQ, or SQS
- Google SRE Fundamentals: Working knowledge of Google's SRE practices—SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and blameless postmortems—and experience adapting them to a regulated environment
- Observability: Experience with Grafana/Similar tools, Prometheus, Understanding of logs shipping, management and metric first alerting
- Production Kubernetes: Hands-on experience managing production-grade clusters, including RBAC, autoscaling, Helm, and multi-cluster patterns
- FinTech Background: Experience working in highly regulated financial environments or with FIX/API connectivity
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