What you'll bring:Whether simulating the aerodynamics of an F1 racing car or the noise generated by a jet engine Simcenter X customers need on-demand super-computer resources, data management, and access to an unparalleled portfolio of simulation tools. We are changing the way our customers run and interact with multi-physics high fidelity simulations and our SRE Engineers play a meaningful role in this transformation. Your contributions will impact the way designers and engineers develop products.
We are looking for a hands-on leader with expertise in all aspects Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud Operations to lead a team and to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core applications and cloud infrastructure.
In this role, you will lead a talented team of engineers while acting as the technical authority for operations of our AWS native services, Kubernetes platforms, and enterprise observability stacks. Beyond technical leadership, you will spearhead the design and governance of our Incident Management processes, ensuring seamless integration between our on-call operations and the wider corporate Incident Response Team. You will balance hands-on technical guidance with strategic execution, championing SRE best practices, automation, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the USA. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in USA.Key Responsibilities:- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing SRE and Cloud Operations team. Foster a culture of automation, blameless post-mortems, and proactive engineering.
- Architecture & Reliability: Own the reliability, availability, and performance of applications hosted in AWS. Ensure robust design across both AWS native managed services and containerized workloads.
- Kubernetes & Container Operations: Collaborate across multiple teams to ensure the reliability, capacity management, of our Kubernetes based deployments.
- Incident Management & Response Strategy: Formulate, implement, and continuously refine comprehensive Incident Management processes, frameworks, and runbooks. Establish clear escalation paths, SLA/SLO tracking, and on-call rotations.
- Cross-Functional Incident Integration: Act as the operational bridge between engineering teams and the wider corporate Incident Response Team. Ensure tight integration of alerting, tooling (e.g., PagerDuty), and communication channels during critical incidents.
- Observability & Monitoring: Maintain and evolve our telemetry posture utilizing AWS CloudWatch, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) standard, and Datadog for comprehensive metrics, APM, logs, and traces.
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the automation of infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and toil reduction to minimize manual operational overhead.
Qualifications & Experience:- Experience: 4+ years in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, or DevOps/SRE roles, with at least 2-3 years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity.
- AWS Cloud Expertise: Deep hands-on experience, deploying, and operating production workloads in AWS, leveraging both managed services (e.g., DynamoDB, S3, IAM, VPC) and compute offerings.
- Kubernetes & EKS: Proven expertise in managing production-grade Kubernetes environments using Amazon EKS, including cluster upgrades, networking, and scaling.
- Incident Management Leadership: Demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and maturing Incident Management frameworks in a complex enterprise environment. Experience collaborating closely with centralized or wider corporate Incident Response teams during high-severity events.
- Observability Mastery: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation, AWS CloudWatch, and Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
- Operational Tooling: Strong background working with enterprise incident response and on-call platforms like PagerDuty.
- Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in modern IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, or Go).
- Mindset: Strong advocate for SRE principles, blameless post-mortems, and robust security practices. Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge technical engineering teams and enterprise-wide stakeholders.
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the USA. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in USA.You'll Benefit FromSiemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html
The pay range for this position is 109,800 - 197,700 annually with a target incentive of 5-8 of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.
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