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This is an advanced individual-contributor role for someone with a proven track record leading an organization through a transition to SLO-based reliability engineering - you've done this before, and you know what it takes to get development teams bought in. This is a hands-on SRE role, not a software development role: you'll work alongside other SREs on the initiative, guiding development teams on telemetry and instrumentation strategy rather than writing that code yourself. You'll operate as the go-to expert on Datadog and observability practice, helping define meaningful SLOs and error budgets and making data-driven reliability decisions. You'll also help train and mentor junior SREs, working within priorities set by the SRE Manager.\nEligibility: This role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.\nWhat You'll Do\nGuide the observability and reliability initiative, working alongside other SREs to set the technical direction for how the organization measures and improves reliability\nLead the transition to SLO-based reliability engineering, building on prior experience doing this elsewhere\nGuide development teams on telemetry and instrumentation strategy for their applications, without doing the application development work yourself\nServe as the primary technical authority on Datadog, from dashboarding to alerting to SLO tracking\nRecommend service level objectives in partnership with Product and Development teams\nAct as a senior escalation point during incidents\nHelp improve and evolve the broader SRE framework\nBuild disaster recovery plans, including advanced fault injection scenarios\nAdvise on SRE training curriculum and content, and help set and follow priorities established by the SRE Manager\nTech Stack You'll Work With\nCloud: Microsoft Azure Government\n\nServer Environment: Linux and Windows\n\nCI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions\n\nInfrastructure as Code: Terraform\n\nObservability: Datadog (primary)\n\nAI-assisted development: GitHub Copilot\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nObservability (core focus)\nSignificant, hands-on experience with Datadog - dashboards, alerting, SLO/error-budget tracking, and telemetry pipelines\nProven experience leading an organization's transition to SLO-based reliability engineering, not just supporting one\nTrack record guiding development teams on instrumentation and telemetry strategy (advisory, not hands-on application coding)\nDeep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack; able to bring clarity to complex incidents or performance issues\nAble to build templated observability dashboards and configuration as code so others can implement quickly\nAble to set and influence appropriate SLOs and Error Budgets org-wide\nComfortable operating across both Linux and Windows server environments\nIncident Management\nExperience preparing and assessing SREs for on-call readiness, including mentoring and identifying training needs\nSkilled at running post-mortems where participants feel safe to contribute; fosters a culture of learning from failure\nComfortable acting as a senior on-call escalation point and guiding restoration efforts\nExperience partnering with SRE and Development leads to identify and fix root causes of excessive alerting and pager load\nDesign for Reliability\nAdvanced understanding of systems design, including high availability, deployment, and recovery techniques, plus failure modes and system behaviors\nSpecialized depth in one or more areas such as denial-of-service protection or containerization, with the ability to consult others on it\nAble to make resilience and recoverability decisions backed by load testing data and fault injection results\nExperience documenting SRE design practices and contributing to a broader SRE framework\nDisaster Recovery\nExperience contributing to DR plans, including recovery priorities, procedures, and guiding others through runbooks\nAble to design and lead DR practice scenarios and incident response exercises, identifying knowledge gaps and improvements\nExperience planning chaos engineering scenarios to simulate faults across memory, network, I/O, or distributed systems\nPlatforms and Automation\nAble to build engineering and architecture consensus for new standard components and services on the Paved Road, including platforms and CI/CD\nExperience promoting adoption and standardization, with contributions back via inner sourcing\nA champion for Paved Road adoption, driving efficiency by removing rework and silos\nReliability Culture\nCreates and shares SRE best practices and training material\nComfortable coaching other SREs and identifying development gaps\nAble to spot and eliminate large-scale toil\nAI-Driven Development (desired)\nExperience using GitHub Copilot to accelerate troubleshooting, automation, or reliability tooling\nInterest in helping define best practices for AI-assisted development within an SRE context\nBehavioral Competencies\nCollaboration and Teamwork\nCustomer & External Focus\nSolves Problems and Analyzes Issues\nLearning Agility\nBuilds Relationships\nDevelops Others\n\nU.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. 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