[Hiring] Manager, Production Site Reliability Engineering @Vultr

Role Description

Vultr is seeking a Manager of Production Site Reliability Engineering to build and lead a new team responsible for the availability, performance, and operability of our production control plane. This is the environment that runs our customer-facing web applications and the internal platform that supports them. You will own the day-to-day operations of this environment:

• Incident response
• Monitoring and alerting
• Configuration management
• Capacity planning
• Ongoing re-architecture of the control plane for continued scale

This is both a technical and a people leadership role. You will hire, grow, and lead a team of SREs and database engineers, set the operational culture, and partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to ensure the production environment is reliable, observable, and ready for the next phase of Vultr's growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Production Site Reliability Engineering team: hire, mentor, and grow a team of SREs and database engineers responsible for the production control plane
• Own the availability, performance, and operability of the production web stack
• Lead incident response for production-impacting events; drive postmortems and turn lessons into durable system improvements, runbooks, and alerting
• Own configuration management for the production environment, ensuring consistent, repeatable, and auditable infrastructure across all control plane hosts
• Partner with engineering teams across the organization to ensure new services are production-ready: observable, deployable, and documented before they reach customers
• Drive the control plane re-architecture: stand up new infrastructure, manage parallel runs and cutover, and ensure the new environment meets production readiness standards for monitoring, alerting, and capacity
• Set the operational roadmap for the production environment: capacity planning, scaling strategy, disaster recovery, and the evolution of the architecture toward a more distributed, resilient design
• Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across the production stack and ensure the team has the visibility needed to respond to issues before customers do
• Manage the production database and caching environment: replication topology, performance tuning, backup verification, and failover testing
• Foster a culture of operational excellence: regular operational reviews, SLO definition and tracking, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of runbooks and deployment processes

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or infrastructure operations, with at least 2 years in a team lead or management role
• Deep experience operating production web stacks at scale
• Strong Linux systems knowledge: networking, systemd, package management, firewall configuration, and performance tuning
• Track record of building and operating monitoring and alerting systems and driving a culture of observability and proactive incident response
• Experience with configuration management at scale (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or similar)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience hiring and building engineering teams
• Experience with database replication, backup strategies, and failure modes
• Experience leading production migrations or major infrastructure transitions
• Bonus: experience with Harvester or similar HCI platforms for running production workloads on VMs
• Bonus: experience with Redis cluster architecture, failover, and performance tuning at scale
• Bonus: experience with HAProxy configuration, keepalived, and load balancing strategies for high-traffic web applications
• Bonus: experience with PCI compliance environments
• Bonus: experience writing PHP
• Bonus: experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN/edge platforms

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

Compensation

$140,000 - $160,000. Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.

Inclusion & Privacy

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws.

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