Site Reliability Senior Manager

Job title:

Site Reliability Senior Manager

Location:

Houston, Texas-USA | Madison, Alabama-USA | New York - Home Office, New York-USA

Req ID:

3388

Workplace Type:

Remote

Job Description:
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Site Reliability Manager to lead the team that keeps our platform fast, available, and resilient as we scale. You'll own the reliability strategy for our production systems, build and grow a high-performing SRE team, and partner closely with engineering, product, and security leaders to make reliability a shared, measurable outcome.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll spend most of your time coaching engineers, setting direction, and improving how we operate, while staying close enough to the technology to guide architecture decisions and step in during critical incidents.

Lead, hire, and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and blameless accountability

Define and drive the reliability roadmap, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services

Own incident management end to end: on-call structure, escalation paths, incident command, and post-incident reviews that lead to lasting fixes

Improve observability across the stack (metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting) so teams can detect and resolve issues quickly

Champion automation to reduce toil, and drive improvements in deployment safety, capacity planning, and disaster recovery

Partner with engineering and product leaders to balance feature velocity with reliability, and to embed reliability practices into the development lifecycle

Manage cloud infrastructure cost and performance, identifying opportunities to optimize spend without compromising resilience

Report on reliability health, trends, and risks to senior leadership

Education / Qualifications

7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers

Deep experience operating large-scale, distributed systems in production on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized workloads, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines

Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry

A track record of leading incident response and turning lessons learned into durable improvements

Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across teams and levels of seniority

Nice to Have

Experience scaling an SRE function from an early stage

Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc

Experience with chaos engineering, multi-region architectures, or FinOps practices

Contributions to open-source infrastructure or reliability tooling

Experience leading globally distributed teams

About Octave
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave?
All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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