Overview
OpenLoop is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SRE) to join our team in Lima, Peru. This role will be part of the Engineering Team.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, mentor, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers
- Conduct regular 1 : 1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
- Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, continuous improvement, sense of urgency, and clear communication
- Recruit, interview, and onboard new SRE team members
- Collaborate with engineering leadership on team planning and resource allocation
- Address and evaluate current system landscape to build an SRE roadmap and determine headcount
- Define and implement SRE strategy aligned with business objectives
- Establish and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across all services
- Drive incident response processes and post-mortem culture
- Lead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling initiatives
- Oversee monitoring, alerting, and observability implementations
- Champion automation and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability and deployment practices
- Work with security teams to implement secure, compliant infrastructure
- Collaborate with the product team to balance feature velocity with reliability
- Engage with executive leadership on infrastructure strategy and planning
- Coordinate with vendors and external partners on critical infrastructure components
- Ensure 24 / 7 system availability and rapid incident response
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans
- Drive cost optimization initiatives while maintaining reliability standards
- Establish and track key reliability metrics and KPIs
- Lead efforts to reduce toil and increase automation
Qualifications
8+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering3+ years of people management experience, preferably in technical rolesProven track record of managing large-scale, distributed systemsExperience with incident management and post-mortem processesStrong background in AWS and container orchestrationStrong proficiency in at least one programming language (Typescript, Python, Go, etc.)Deep understanding of Linux / Unix systems and networkingExperience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK)Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)Knowledge of CI / CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc)Understanding of database systems and performance optimizationAdvanced English fluency (C1) and excellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience leading technical discussions and presenting to stakeholdersAbility to translate technical concepts to non-technical audiencesStrong problem-solving and decision-making capabilitiesExperience with agile methodologies and project managementDesirable / Additional Experience
Experience in high-growth startup environmentsBackground in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, etc.)Experience with event-driven architecture, microservices and service meshKnowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworksAWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar cloud certificationsExperience with chaos engineering and fault injectionKnowledge of performance testing and load testing frameworksUnderstanding of distributed tracing and application performance monitoringExperience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)Benefits
Contract under a Peruvian company ID ("Planilla"). You will receive all the legal benefits in Peruvian soles (CTS, "Gratificaciones", etc).Monday - Friday workdays, full time (9 am - 6 pm).Unlimited Vacation Days - Yes! We want you to be able to relax and come back as happy and productive as ever.EPS healthcare covered 100% with RIMACOncology insurance covered 100% with RIMACAFP retirement plan—to help you save for the future.We’ll assign a computer in the office so you can have the best tools to do your job.You will have all the benefits of the Coworking space located in Lima - Miraflores (Free beverage, internal talks, bicycle parking, best view of the city)#J-18808-Ljbffr