Job Description
Role PurposeWe're looking for an Engineering Lead to drive high-quality, safe, and automated change into production environments. You'll provide hands-on technical leadership, coach engineers, champion reliability and non-functional requirements, and embed automation as a default mindset across the team.Key ResponsibilitiesEngineering & Design Ownership
* Own end-to-end design for non-functional requirements, integration contracts, resilience patterns, and rollback strategies.
* Define and maintain clear, testable runbooks and operational procedures.
Change Excellence & Operational Readiness
* Design and execute change rehearsals, smoke tests, soak tests, and rollback plans.
* Ensure all changes meet the highest standards of safety, repeatability, and automation.
Engineering Leadership
* Lead code reviews for infrastructure-as-code and automated runbook workflows.
* Champion SRE best practices including error budgets, reliability metrics, and reduction of operational toil.
Continuous Improvement
* Perform defect analytics and drive focused remediation sprints.
* Continuously enhance standard change models and expand automation coverage.
Must-Have Skills & Experience
* Strong background in networks and/or security, with hands-on design, build, and operational experience across at least one major technology stack.
* Practical experience with automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
* Proven capability leading ITIL change processes and Major Incident Management (MIM), with a disciplined post-incident review culture.
* Excellent troubleshooting skills across multiple layers:
o Network
o Identity
o Endpoint
o Proxy
o SIEM/SOAR
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