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The SRE role combines software engineering and operations to improve service reliability and operational excellence, including critical incident response, proactive problem management, error budgets, and toil reduction.\nResponsibilities include ensuring operational excellence through consistent execution of cloud operations processes, continuous improvement initiatives, and cross functional collaboration with Product Development (R&D), Architecture, and Customer Experience (CX) teams.\nA core responsibility is leading Cloud Maturity Assessments across products and cloud platforms, identifying gaps in cloud deployment/security/operational readiness, and partnering with Product Development (R&D), DevOps, Program Management Office (PMO), and SecOps to drive remediation into roadmaps and releases.\nThis role will require close partnership with Product Development (R&D), Quality, Security, and Customer Experience (CX) teams as part of supporting reliable product delivery and customer operations. In addition, the role will engage with peer cloud, infrastructure, and platform teams across the broader organization.\nDuties and Responsibilities:\nLead Cloud Maturity Assessments across products deployed on AWS and Azure, using standardized scoring templates, weighted maturity dimensions, and executive reporting (heatmaps/dashboards) to identify maturity gaps and translate findings into an actionable improvement backlog. \nDefine and implement reliability standards for observability, establish service health practices, and drive consistent operational practices across products and platforms to enable scalable “run” operations and consistent SLAs. \nFacilitate cloud provider / internal and operational readiness reviews (FTR/WAFR-style) to ensure workloads meet validated standards and coordinate follow-on “day-2” operational improvements identified during reviews. \nImplement SRE best practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, load/performance considerations, and automation to reduce operational toil. \nLead post-incident reviews and reliability improvements that measurably improve uptime, resilience, and operational consistency. \nSuccess Measures (KPIs):\nProducts complete standardized Cloud Maturity Assessments across AWS/Azure, with clear maturity levels, gap analysis, and remediation roadmaps. \nMeasurable improvement in operational readiness: standardized observability, alerting, runbooks, DR/backup readiness, and reduced incident impact \nStrong partnership model established with other stakeholder organizations to deliver maturity improvements through release roadmaps. \nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, and 10+ years of experience in Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Administration. \nExperience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Operations, Platform Engineering, or DevOps supporting SaaS systems. \nHands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS production workloads (networking, IAM, monitoring, logging, scaling, DR/backup patterns). \nStrong grounding in observability (metrics/logs/traces), alerting strategy, and incident response operations. \nAbility to translate product operational gaps into a prioritized backlog and drive improvements through partner teams. \nUnderstanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and virtualized environments. \nProficiency with scripting or automation languages (such as Python, Bash, Ansible, or PowerShell). \nStrong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams. \nAbility to work with global teams across time zones. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience running structured operational readiness reviews (e.g., FTR/WAFR-like reviews) and driving follow-through on outcomes. \nExperience with CloudWatch and/or Azure Monitor / Log Analytics and building operational dashboards/alarms. \nExperience implementing SRE practices such as SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction in a production environment. \nUnderstanding of cybersecurity practices, cloud compliance frameworks, and vulnerability management. \nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO)-Females/Minorities/ProtectedVeterans/Individuals with Disabilities\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nHitachi is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, including females, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals\nwith disabilities.\nAccessibility and reasonable accommodation\nProtected veterans and qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing ageneral inquiry formon our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.\nThis accommodation channel is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. 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