Bread Financial

Manager - Site Reliability Engineering

The Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on AWS and Azure is responsible for leading a team of SREs in designing, building, and maintaining reliable cloud-based infrastructure. This role involves optimizing system performance, ensuring high availability, and enhancing the security of the cloud environments. The Manager works closely with development, operations, and security teams to drive improvements in operational efficiency and establish best practices for cloud infrastructure management. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AWS and Azure environments, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of modern SRE principles. 

Essential Job Functions

* Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Site Reliability Engineers to ensure optimal performance and career growth.
* Establish team goals and objectives aligned with the company’s strategic vision.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation within the SRE team.
* Partner in the design, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure in AWS and Azure, adhering to SRE best practices.
* Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of the cloud environments.
* Collaborate with architecture and development teams to design cloud solutions that meet business requirements.
* Implement and refine monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect and respond to incidents proactively.
* Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including automation of repetitive tasks and incident response processes.
* Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization strategies for cloud resources.
* Demonstrate a degree of business knowledge within the general financial services domain.
* Strive to influence the team to generate support to achieve desired business outcomes.
* Cultivate relationships across roles and organizations to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency.
* Provide feedback formally and informally.
* Request and utilize feedback to foster personal development.
* Advocate for SRE practices and drive adoption across the organization.

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 Every career journey is personal. That's why we empower you with the tools and support to create your own success story. Be challenged. Be heard. Be valued. Be you ... be here. Job Summary The Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on AWS and Azure is responsible for leading a team of SREs in designing, building, and maintaining reliable cloud-based infrastructure. This role involves optimizing system performance, ensuring high availability, and enhancing the security of the cloud environments. The Manager works closely with development, operations, and security teams to drive improvements in operational efficiency and establish best practices for cloud infrastructure management. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AWS and Azure environments, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of modern SRE principles. Essential Job Functions <ul><li>Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Site Reliability Engineers to ensure optimal performance and career growth. Establish team goals and objectives aligned with the company’s strategic vision. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation within the SRE team.</li><li>Partner in the design, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure in AWS and Azure, adhering to SRE best practices. Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of the cloud environments. Collaborate with architecture and development teams to design cloud solutions that meet business requirements.</li><li>Implement and refine monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect and respond to incidents proactively. Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including automation of repetitive tasks and incident response processes. Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization strategies for cloud resources.</li><li>Demonstrate a degree of business knowledge within the general financial services domain. Strive to influence the team to generate support to achieve desired business outcomes.</li><li>Cultivate relationships across roles and organizations to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency. Provide feedback formally and informally. Request and utilize feedback to foster personal development. Advocate for SRE practices and drive adoption across the organization. </li></ul>
Minimum Qualifications <ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology or related field</li><li>5+ years of experience working in IT.</li><li>3+ years of SRE/DevOps experience.</li><li>3+ years of development experience.</li><li>3+ years direct leadership experience. </li></ul>
Skills <ul><li>Leadership</li><li>Functional Expertise</li><li>Coaching</li><li>Operational Excellence</li><li>Team Collaboration </li></ul>
Reports To: Senior Manager and above Direct Reports: 6 - 10 Work Environment <ul><li>Normal Office Environment, hybrid. 24/7 On-call coverage; may be required to work outside of normal business hours, including weekends and possibly holidays. </li></ul>
Travel <ul><li>Ability to travel up to 20% Annually </li></ul>
Other Duties This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time. About Bread Financial At Bread Financial, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community, and be part of our award-winning culture. We’ve been consistently recognized as a best place to work nationally and in many markets and we’re proud to promote an environment where you feel appreciated, accepted, valued, and fulfilled—both personally and professionally. Bread Financial supports the overall wellness of our associates with a diverse suite of benefits and offers boundless opportunities for career development and non-traditional career progression. <a class="app-aware-link " target="_blank" href="https://www.breadfinancial.com/" data-test-app-aware-link="">Bread Financial®</a> (NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company providing simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions. The company creates opportunities for its customers and partners through digitally enabled choices that offer ease, empowerment, financial flexibility and exceptional customer experiences. Driven by a digital-first approach, data insights and white-label technology, Bread Financial delivers growth for its partners through a comprehensive suite of payment solutions that includes private label and co-brand credit cards and <a class="app-aware-link " target="_blank" href="https://go.breadfinancial.com/paid-media-landing-page?cmp=se:go:aq:bf:he:it&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_term=bread%20pay&amp;utm_content=&amp;GA_network=g&amp;GA_device=c&amp;GA_campaign=19663865897&amp;GA_adgroup=144586480463&amp;GA_target=&amp;GA_placement=&amp;GA_creative=673284598533&amp;GA_extension=&amp;GA_keyword=bread%20pay&amp;GA_loc_physical_ms=9014967&amp;GA_landingpage=https://go.breadfinancial.com/paid-media-landing-page&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzOnskaLAiAMVAUn_AR2HpCLWEAAYASAAEgLi8PD_BwE" data-test-app-aware-link="">Bread Pay®</a> buy now, pay later products. Bread Financial also offers direct-to-consumer products that give customers more access, choice and freedom through its branded <a class="app-aware-link " target="_blank" href="https://breadcashback.breadfinancial.com/Bread/cashback/cashback_lp.html?channel=6&amp;subChannel=J&amp;cmp=se:go:aq:bf:he:it&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=creditcard&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1YuB9qHAiAMVlDgIBR2RuQ6nEAAYASAAEgIlXvD_BwE" data-test-app-aware-link="">Bread Cashback® American Express® Credit Card</a>, <a class="app-aware-link " target="_blank" href="https://www.breadfinancial.com/en/bread-rewards-credit-card.html" data-test-app-aware-link="">Bread Rewards™ American Express® Credit Card</a> and <a class="app-aware-link " target="_blank" href="https://www.breadfinancial.com/en/bread-savings.html?channel=6&amp;subChannel=J&amp;cmp=se:go:aq:bf:he:it&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=pmax&amp;utm_content=savings&amp;utm_campaign=bread_savings&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2dyBqqLAiAMVZ13_AR1Iaw47EAAYASAAEgI4QvD_BwE" data-test-app-aware-link="">Bread Savings®</a> products.  Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Bread Financial is powered by its approximately 7,000 global associates and is committed to sustainable business practices. 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