AIOPs Observability/SRE Lead

Job Description:

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the SRE team including hiring, mentoring, and developing reliability engineering capabilities.
• Define SRE practice including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets across critical platforms.
• Drive automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve platform reliability and scalability.
• Oversee incident management, blameless post-mortems, and systematic reliability improvement programs.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to embed reliability into platform design.
• Establish observability standards including unified monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing strategies.
• Manage on-call processes, escalation procedures, and team wellbeing for 24x7 operations.
• Report on platform reliability, SLO compliance, and operational maturity to IT leadership.
• Collaborate with Integration teams, IT infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, and external service providers to design and implement reliable connectivity solutions.
• Evaluate network technologies and solutions and provide technical recommendations based on business requirements, scalability, performance, security, and cost.
• Ensure network transformation initiatives align with applicable security, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to incorporate appropriate security controls, segmentation, firewall policies, VPN connectivity, and access controls into network architecture.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for AIOps architectures, topologies, configurations, standards, policies, migration plans, and operational procedures.
• Establish architecture standards, design principles, and best practices that promote consistency, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to Observability engineering and operations teams throughout architecture, implementation, migration, and optimization activities.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, automation, standardization, and modernization of network operations.
• Troubleshoot and provide architectural guidance for complex Observability services
• Stay current with emerging enterprise SRE, cloud networking, automation, and security technologies and assess their applicability to Altera’s environment.
• Salary Range
• The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
• $187,000 - $270,700 USD
• We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
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Qualifications:

• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, with 10+ years of professional experience in enterprise networking.
• 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps with a focus on platform reliability.
• Proven experience leading technical engineering teams in a senior or management capacity.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability frameworks.
• Strong background in observability, incident management, and blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience driving automation and toil reduction programs across infrastructure and platform teams.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and containerized environments.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder reporting and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience establishing SRE practices in semiconductor, HPC, or EDA-dependent environments.
• Familiarity with AIOps platforms and AI-assisted incident management tooling.
• Knowledge of chaos engineering practices and resiliency testing frameworks.
• Posting Statement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing SRE practices in semiconductor, HPC, or EDA-dependent environments.
• Familiarity with AIOps platforms and AI-assisted incident management tooling.
• Knowledge of chaos engineering practices and resiliency testing frameworks.