About this role

This role involves leading reliability engineering efforts for API hosting platforms across multiple cloud providers, ensuring high availability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Lead reliability strategies
Define SLIs/SLOs
Oversee incident management
Drive automation
Build observability practices

Technical Overview

Focus on cloud reliability, automation, observability, security compliance, and incident management across public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and others.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior cloud reliability engineer with extensive experience in managing API hosting platforms across multiple cloud providers. They possess strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of reliability practices, and experience with automation and observability tools.

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of technical experienceCloud experience across public providersReliability strategiesIncident managementAutomationObservability practicesSecurity compliancePartner collaboration

Nice-to-Have Skills

Chaos engineeringResilience testingError budgetsCost optimizationSecurity integration

Tools & Platforms

Cloud PlatformsLoggingMetricsTracingSynthetic MonitoringSecurity Standards

Required Skills

API ManagementCloud PlatformsReliability EngineeringSLIs/SLOsIncident ManagementAutomationObservabilitySecurity StandardsCI/CDChaos EngineeringResilience TestingError BudgetsMonitoringRoot Cause AnalysisOperational Practices

Hard Skills

API ManagementCloud PlatformsReliability EngineeringSLIs/SLOsIncident ManagementAutomationObservabilitySecurity StandardsCI/CDChaos EngineeringResilience TestingError BudgetsMonitoringRoot Cause AnalysisOperational Practices

Soft Skills

LeadershipTeam BuildingMentorshipCross-team CollaborationTechnical GuidanceCommunicationProblem-solvingOperational Excellence

Industry & Role

Industry Insurance

Job Function Lead cloud reliability engineering for API platforms

Role Subtype Site Reliability Engineer

Tech Domains Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Docker

Keywords for Your Resume

API ManagementCloud PlatformsReliability EngineeringSLIs/SLOsIncident ManagementAutomationObservabilitySecurity StandardsCI/CDChaos EngineeringResilience TestingError BudgetsMonitoringRoot Cause AnalysisOperational PracticesAPI managementcloud platformsreliability engineeringincident managementautomationobservabilitysecurity standardschaos engineeringresilience testing

Deal Breakers

Less than 8 years of experience, No cloud experience, Lack of incident management skills, No experience with automation or observability, Unable to work in hybrid environment

API Management Platform - Cloud Reliability Engineering Lead

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