Job Description

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex technical problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs.

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you’ll tap into your passion for proactively finding and fixing inefficiencies to solve our reliability and performance issues. You’ll focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change and problem management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of our services. Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Capital One.

General Responsibilities:

• Guide site reliability automation to help eliminate manual toil and create a self-healing capability.
• Fosters a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the chapter. Establishes and tracks appropriate OKRs to ensure outcomes are met.
• Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities.
• Competent in multiple contexts, such as programming languages, security, automation, testing, infrastructure, and performance and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification

• At least 6 years of experience using build and deployment tools (Jenkins, GitHub, or Artifactory)

• At least 4 years of experience with AWS

• At least 2 years of team leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with AWS

• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices

• Experience with SRE design to address reliability and resiliency with availability of 5-9s
• Experience in working in a cloud environment (OCP and AWS EMR).
• Experience with application monitoring tools, observability, and performance assessments.
• Experience with DevOps (CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub)
• Experience developing automation solutions in Python (or other similar languages)
• Comfortable with production environments, firewalls, and networking
• Experience with networking such as routing, load balancers, and VPC
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in deploying, observing, altering, logging, and monitoring systems (Splunk, Datadog, New Relic) with a mindset towards predictive analysis.
• Working knowledge of the Incident Management process.

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Riverwoods, IL: $149,800 - $171,000 for Lead Platform Engineer

McLean, VA: $164,800 - $188,100 for Lead Platform Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

Job Tags

Full time, Part time, H1b, Local area

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