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Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Onebrief· Infrastructure & Security
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Hybrid (Colorado Springs, CO), Hybrid (Arlington, VA)$205k - $255k + equityFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineering Manager leading the SRE team across on-prem DoD and AWS environments, ensuring reliability, security, and customer-focused operational support.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the SRE team: Hire, coach, and support engineers across infrastructure, operations, and application reliability. Set expectations, manage performance, support career development, and build the skills and coverage the team needs.
  • Own capacity and work planning: Maintain a clear view of incoming requests, ongoing support needs, and planned engineering work. Break initiatives into manageable tasks with the team, establish ownership, sequence work, and adjust commitments as priorities or capacity change.
  • Coordinate delivery across teams: Manage dependencies with platform engineering, application engineering, security, and customer success. Identify blockers early, resolve competing priorities, and communicate progress, risks, and decisions to stakeholders.
  • Set the reliability roadmap: Translate customer needs, production data, incident patterns, and operational risks into a prioritized improvement plan. Protect capacity for work that reduces recurring failures and makes deployments easier to operate.
  • Establish operational ownership: Ensure production deployments have clear support responsibilities, escalation paths, and readiness criteria. Plan with partner teams for new deployments, releases, and ongoing customer support.
  • Support team-led incident response: Establish sustainable on-call coverage and clear incident response expectations. Coach engineers who serve as incident commanders and lead blameless postmortems / After Action Reviews (AARs). Help the team assess corrective actions, assign ownership, and schedule follow-through.
  • Guide technical priorities: Work with engineers and technical leads to evaluate approaches to infrastructure, automation, observability, and application reliability. Ensure plans account for operability, security requirements, and the constraints of on-prem and air-gapped environments.
  • Make reliability and workload visible: Guide the team's use of SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics. Use service health, support demand, and delivery progress to explain where investment is needed and whether improvements are working.
  • Reduce operational toil: Give engineers time and support to automate repetitive deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, and recovery work. Help turn lessons from individual customer environments into reusable improvements.

Qualifications

  • Active Secret clearance
  • 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related role, with substantial infrastructure and operations experience
  • Experience directly managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring
  • Experience planning team capacity, prioritizing competing requests, and coordinating engineering work across teams
  • A track record of delivering reliability improvements while managing ongoing operational responsibilities
  • Experience with incident response and post-incident review practices, including helping engineers develop leadership and ownership
  • Technical judgment sufficient to evaluate engineering proposals, understand operational risks, and guide prioritization
  • Clear communication, including the ability to explain constraints and negotiate scope, timing, and commitments with stakeholders
  • Technical background in infrastructure and automation (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go, Bash) or related
  • Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Delivery practices (CI/CD, release safety)
  • Cloud and on-prem environments (AWS, GovCloud, customer-managed infrastructure)
  • Observability (Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
  • Networking and security fundamentals
  • Application reliability practices with engineering collaboration

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementCapacity planning and cross-team coordinationIncident response leadership

Benefits

  • Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO
  • Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match
  • Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100%
  • Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips
  • Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements
  • Equity: Shares in company success
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Onebrief makes military headquarters run seamlessly

Virtually everything in the military requires a plan—from everyday operations to war-time missions. With a rigorous process, many stakeholders, and rudimentary software (PowerPoint!!), planning is very slow. Onebrief is a collaborative software designed to make military planning fast. It turns every input into reusable building blocks and automatically keeps all planning artifacts in sync.

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