Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Lucid Motors

Responsibilities

• SRE Leadership & Reliability Ownership
• Own the availability, performance, and reliability of cloud services deployed and operated in KSA.
• Define, implement, and track SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Lead the architecture and governance of highly available and disaster-resilient systems, ensuring DR strategies are tested and maintained.
• Drive capacity planning, auto-scaling, and performance tuning across Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Own monitoring, observability, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and logging platforms.
• Lead incident response, impact assessment, and root-cause analysis for complex production issues.
• Team Management, Mentorship & Growth
• Manage a team of SRE engineers, providing technical direction, career coaching, and performance feedback.
• Review and approve infrastructure code, deployment configurations, automation scripts, and SRE tooling.
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, and skill development initiatives for the SRE function.
• Ensure fair, sustainable, and well-documented on-call rotations.
• Cloud Platforms & Automation
• Oversee production environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS.
• Govern Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and configuration management tools.
• Lead CI/CD strategy and implementation using ArgoCD, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and GitLab.
• Ensure secure and reliable deployment of microservices and data pipelines on Kubernetes using Helm.
• Platform Services & Data Systems
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Security, and Architecture teams.
• Oversee the reliability and scaling of platform services such as Kafka, Spark, Trino, Airflow, MQTT, and microservices ecosystems.
• Ensure stable operations of NoSQL and RDBMS systems including ElasticSearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Support distributed data processing and messaging systems, addressing performance and scalability challenges.

Requirements and Skills

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• 2 4 years of experience managing or leading SRE/DevOps engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience with OCI and AWS cloud platforms.
• Solid expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash/Shell, or similar languages.
• Strong Experience with incident management, observability, and performance optimization.
• Fluent in English, with experience collaborating across regions and time zones.
• Experience scaling SRE practices across multiple teams or services.
• Familiarity with compliance, security, and regulated cloud environments.