Manager, Production Site Reliability Engineering
Vultr · Remote · Remote - United States ·
COMPENSATION
€140k – €160k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Manager level role
- Fully remote position
- Lead SRE team
- Production control plane
- 10+ years experience
You will build and lead a team of SREs and database engineers responsible for Vultr's production web stack and internal platform. The role involves owning day-to-day operations, driving incident response, and partnering with engineering teams to ensure services are production-ready.
Key responsibilities include managing configuration, capacity planning, and leading the re-architecture of the control plane for scale. You will establish operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and blameless postmortems while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
What you'll do
- Hire, mentor, and grow a team of SREs and database engineers
- Own availability, performance, and operability of production web stack
- Lead incident response and drive postmortems for system improvements
- Manage configuration management for consistent infrastructure across hosts
- Partner with engineering to ensure new services are observable and deployable
- Drive control plane re-architecture and manage parallel runs for cutover
- Set operational roadmap for capacity planning and disaster recovery
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability across the production stack
- Manage production database replication, tuning, backups, and failover testing
- Foster operational excellence through SLO tracking and blameless postmortems
What you'll need
- 10+ years in SRE or infrastructure operations
- At least 2 years in a team lead or management role
- Deep experience operating production web stacks at scale
- Strong Linux systems knowledge including networking and performance tuning
- Track record of building monitoring systems and driving observability culture
- Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for runbooks and incidents
- Experience hiring and building engineering teams
- Understanding of database replication, backup strategies, and failure modes
- Experience leading production migrations or major infrastructure transitions
Nice to have
- Experience with Harvester or similar HCI platforms
- Knowledge of Redis cluster architecture and performance tuning
- Experience with HAProxy, keepalived, and load balancing strategies
- Familiarity with PCI compliance environments
- Experience writing PHP
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN/edge platforms
Stack
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Chef
- Harvester
- Redis
- HAProxy
- keepalived
- PHP
- Cloudflare
- Linux
How you'll work
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year
- $400 annual stipend for following years
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
What you get
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) plan with 100% match up to 4% and immediate vesting
- $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement
- 11 holidays plus paid time off with rollover plan
- Increased PTO at 3 and 10 year anniversaries
- One month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Annual anniversary bonus
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription