Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Join our team as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive system reliability, observability, and performance monitoring for mission-critical digital trading products. You will lead monitoring initiatives in a high-availability trading environment, ensuring stable connectivity to external partners while proactively identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. At EPAM, you'll work on cutting-edge technologies, solve complex challenges, and shape the future of digital innovation. With access to continuous learning, mentorship, and global projects, your expertise will drive meaningful change.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement a strategic reliability vision for the trading portfolio, covering infrastructure, network connectivity, application performance, and throughput
- Lead and oversee a team of SRE engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance guidance
- Own and evolve the SLA/SLO/SLI framework, including error budgets and service health reporting
- Configure and optimize comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems across infrastructure and applications
- Drive observability best practices using APM and monitoring platforms (e.g., Dynatrace)
- Analyze application and infrastructure performance to isolate fault domains and determine root causes of critical incidents
- Lead major incident management, coordinate resolution efforts, and conduct blameless postmortems
- Participate in 24x7x365 support rotation and ensure operational excellence across the team
- Identify automation opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering
- Proven leadership experience (technical lead or team lead), with ability to oversee and mentor engineers
- Strong hands-on experience with SLA/SLO/SLI definition, governance, and reporting
- Solid experience working in Microsoft Azure environments (IaaS, PaaS, networking, monitoring)
- Hands-on experience with Dynatrace (configuration, alerting, dashboards, performance analysis)
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and APM tools in production environments
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure in time-sensitive, high-impact environments
We offer:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
- Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)
- Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year
- Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
- Accident Insurance
- Employee Discounts
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
- If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program
This remote position cannot be performed in New York City. Salary range: $140,000 - $155,000.
EPAM Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We recognize the value of diversity and inclusion in creating success for our customers, business partners, shareholders, employees and communities. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, developing and promoting employees without discrimination. As a global employer, this commitment includes complying with all laws in the countries in which we operate. Nevertheless, we believe equal employment practices should not be limited to what the law requires. Equal opportunity and inclusion are essential to motivate, empower and recognize the best in everyone. At EPAM, employment actions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or familial status, national origin, ancestry, genetics, age, disability status, veteran status, citizenship status when otherwise legally able to work, or any other characteristic protected by law.