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We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.\nChart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.\nApplicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.\nThe Lead Site Reliability Engineer will combine deep technical expertise with team leadership to drive reliability across Empower's financial services platform. This role will lead SREs in solving complex operational challenges, establish technical standards, and advise engineering leadership on infrastructure strategy and reliability initiatives.\nWhat you will do:\nLead cross-functional reliability initiatives across multiple teams, aligning technical efforts with business priorities.\nDefine and evolve SRE best practices, tools, methodologies, and technical standards across the organization.\nArchitect enterprise-scale, multi-region AWS infrastructure that balances reliability, cost, performance, and security while supporting millions of daily transactions.\nEstablish Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for critical services to guide prioritization and reliability decisions.\nLead major incident response as incident commander, coordinating resolution across teams and facilitating postmortems to drive organizational learning.\nDesign and implement disaster recovery plans, chaos engineering practices, and systematic reliability testing for critical financial services infrastructure.\nLead the design of foundational infrastructure patterns using Terraform, developing reusable modules adopted across teams.\nArchitect and implement advanced Kubernetes patterns, including multi-tenancy, security policies, and advanced scheduling.\nEstablish comprehensive observability strategies using Datadog and Splunk, defining standards for metrics, logging, and tracing.\nEstablish CI/CD standards and implement pipeline-as-code and progressive delivery practices at scale.\nDrive FinOps initiatives to optimize cloud spending while maintaining reliability targets.\nEvaluate and introduce new technologies and practices that improve operational efficiency and team effectiveness.\nProvide technical leadership to a functional team of SREs without direct reporting responsibilities, coordinating projects and operational initiatives.\nMentor SREs across experience levels, conduct architecture and design reviews, and lead technical training sessions.\nCoordinate on-call schedules and implement improvements that reduce operational burden.\nPartner with Engineering Managers, Directors, Product teams, and Security teams to align reliability initiatives with business needs, implement zero-trust architecture and compliance controls, and balance feature delivery with reliability requirements.\nInfluence architectural decisions and represent SRE in cross-functional planning and strategic initiatives.\nPromote SRE culture, practices, and continuous improvement across Empower.\nWhat you will bring:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n7-10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or an equivalent field, with demonstrated technical leadership.\nProven ability to lead technical teams and deliver complex projects.\nExpert-level AWS knowledge, including experience designing large-scale, multi-region architectures.\nDeep Kubernetes expertise, including advanced features, security, and production-scale operations.\nMastery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including experience developing shared platforms and frameworks.\nStrong software engineering background with production experience in Python and/or Go.\nExtensive experience with Datadog and Splunk and implementing observability and monitoring solutions at scale.\nDeep understanding of CI/CD principles and experience implementing enterprise-grade pipelines.\nProven experience leading major incidents and conducting effective postmortems.\nStrong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.\nExperience mentoring engineers and developing technical capabilities within teams.\nWhat will set you apart:\nPrevious technical leadership experience in SRE or Operational Excellence, including Lead, Staff, or similar roles.\nFinancial services industry experience and understanding of regulatory requirements.\nExpert knowledge of compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, PCI DSS, and FINRA.\nProfessional-level AWS certifications.\nKubernetes certifications, including CKA, CKAD, or CKS.\nExperience implementing SRE practices in organizations with 500 or more engineers.\nBackground in chaos engineering, game days, and reliability testing.\nContributions to open-source projects with demonstrated community leadership.\nExperience implementing and managing service meshes.\nExperience speaking at conferences or publishing technical content.\nThis job operates in a professional office environment.\nThis job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required to perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per terms and conditions of your employment contract\nWhat we offer you\nWe offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.\nMedical, dental, vision and life insurance\nRetirement savings - 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup\nTuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year\nBusiness-casualenvironment that includes the option to wear jeans\nGenerous paid time off upon hire - including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year\nPaid volunteer time - 16 hours per calendar year\nLeave of absence programs - including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)\nBusiness Resource Groups (BRGs) - BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.\n Base Salary Range\n$0.00 - $0.00The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.\nEqual opportunity employer\nDrug-free workplace\nWe are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. 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