Motion Recruitment | Jobspring | Workbridge

SRE Manager- 5 days onsite McLean, VA

Arlington, Virginia

Onsite

Full Time

$200k - $250k

SRE Manager

We’re hiring an SRE Manager to lead the core platform that powers their cloud infrastructure. This role owns the teams responsible for architecting, building, and automating the cloud-native foundation that product teams rely on to ship and scale services quickly and reliably.

The company is in McLean, VA and will be 5 days onsite a week.

What You Will Be Doing:
  • Lead and expand globally distributed teams building and running the company’s cloud-native platform (Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure automation).
  • Set the technical vision and roadmap for the platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security at enterprise scale.
  • Drive migration toward fully automated, self-service infrastructure.
  • Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to prioritize platform investments.
  • Recruit, retain, and develop high-performing engineers in a highly competitive talent market.
  • Mentor managers and senior engineers; promote a culture of innovation, ownership, and operational rigor.
  • Collaborate with SRE and support teams to reduce incidents, improve reliability, and elevate customer experience.
  • Embed DevSecOps principles and security into platform strategy and execution.
Required Skills & Experience:
  • 15+ years in software or infrastructure engineering.
  • 7+ years managing engineering teams building enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
  • 3+ years in a senior leadership seat overseeing multiple teams.
  • Deep experience with AWS core services (EKS, VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS).
  • Proven success designing, scaling, and operating Kubernetes-based, cloud-native platforms.
  • Strong background with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane, or similar).
  • Familiarity with modern CI/CD tooling and automation practices.
  • Experience modernizing or transforming platform delivery at a large-scale software organization is a plus.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.

Posted by: Ashton Corbett

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