Sr Manager, SRE

Job Title: Sr SRE Manager (Security Clearance Must)

Location: Needham MA (Remote)

Duration: 12 Months (Contract to Hire)

Interview mode: Video Interview

Visa: USC Only

Job Description :

Candidates must also be local to the area will give preference.

Make sure candidates are fine doing small video screening with my vendor.

USC for security clearance

Required Experience:

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach senior-level engineers.
• Experience managing distributed teams across US Canada EU and global time zones.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native patterns service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
• Proven ability to translate operational pain points into engineering deliverables.
• 15 years of experience in infrastructure SRE or platform engineering roles.
• 5 years of team management or technical leadership in SRE or DevOps.
• 3 years of experience building and scaling CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions ArgoCD or Terraform Cloud.
• 2 years of software development experience
• Extensive experience with AWS and Azure managed services (EKS AKS RDS Storage ALB/NLB).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes GitOps and service mesh (e.g. Istio Linkerd).
• Strong automation experience using Python Bash or Go.
• Experience implementing FedRAMP CMMC or comparable regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with secrets management workload identity federation and boundaryless access control (e.g. SPIFFE IRSA).

• Be fully aligned to our core values:

• Think Big - Be courageous and bold. Aspire to greatness. Relentlessly pursue market innovation. Set the standard by which others follow. Create solutions that have a meaningful impact. Solve the challenges our customers dont know they have.
• Be Curious - Be a lifelong learner. Seek out new ideas to serve customers. Understand our competition and the world. Be permanently dissatisfied with the status quo. Challenge preconceptions. Focus on the future rather than yesterday.
• Take Action - Be the first. Dont wait. Take accountability. Inspire others by doing. Fail fast and learn from mistakes. Make a difference every day.
• Stronger Together - Respect trust and look out for each other. Celebrate diverse perspectives. Listen. Build connections and belonging. Act with integrity. Give back. One Syniti family.

Certs / Degree: Only nice to have

Top Must Haves:

• The Application SRE Manager will need to have deep experience working in a global SaaS organization.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes Istio mesh.
• Experience with Terraform (role requires about 25% coding).
• It would be this persons responsibility to put in place the gating from a CI/CD pipeline perspective.
• Experience with EKS and EDR.
• Needs experience serving as an architect to work/advise engineering team of what is needed and pushing for it.
• This role requires an individual who can:
  • Be given a project or initiative and figure out the right solutioning.
  • Champion and deliver against projects.

Familiarity with Federal regulations requirements such as FedRAMP ITAR IL4/IL5 and CMMC