Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Athena Core

In this role you will lead and shape the reliability strategy for critical applications within the Athena Core team. You will drive incident prevention, triage, and post-incident analysis, collaborating across cross-functional partners to meet service levels. You will mentor engineers, promote SRE culture, and steer AI-assisted reliability workflows to improve stability at scale. This is a high-impact position at a globally recognized financial services firm, offering a chance to influence how complex platforms stay resilient and secure.

• Model and promote SRE culture, sharing knowledge through internal forums
• Lead reliability initiatives using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
• Define and align SLIs/SLOs with stakeholders and establish error budgets
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities for major-incident triage and post-incident analysis
• Serve as main incident contact for applications and resolve issues to minimize financial impact
• Provide high-level technical guidance and mentorship across engineers
• Drive reuse of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain with proper controls
• Be part of the first line of support for the Athena Core team

• Formal training or certification in SRE concepts
• Bachelor in Computer Science
• Proven experience in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise architecture
• Programming: Python, Java/Spring Boot, .Net
• Experience using enterprise-authorized AI to improve SRE workflows with strong validation and data-sensitivity awareness
• Ability to evaluate AI recommendations for correctness and risk and define guardrails
• Linux expertise with strong observability skills (monitoring, SLAs, telemetry)
• CI/CD practices and tooling proficiency
• Containerization and orchestration expertise
• Networking troubleshooting experience
• Advanced knowledge with ongoing self-education in emerging technologies

• leadership
• mentorship
• collaboration
• Python
• Java/Spring Boot
• .Net