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Southwest Power Pool · 1 month ago

Lead DevOps SRE (Remote Eligible)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $142K/yr

10+ years exp

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is focused on ensuring reliable and affordable electricity delivery. As a Lead DevOps SRE, you will be responsible for the performance, resilience, and scalability of SPP’s production systems, while mentoring team members and driving operational strategies.

EnergyEnergy Efficiency

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design and lead implementation of large-scale, highly available infrastructure solutions across multiple platforms

Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex incidents, outages, and performance issues—ensuring rapid, effective resolution

Establish SRE best practices and operational frameworks that raise reliability standards across the entire organization

Mentor and develop senior and junior SRE team members through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing

Partner with leadership, architects, and technical teams to align reliability initiatives with long-term architectural strategy

Drive continuous improvement, automation, and reduction of operational toil across environments

Lead major enterprise projects involving new technologies, cross-team automation, and reliability enhancements

Make architectural decisions that influence scalability, resiliency, and infrastructure management standards

Developing and executing test plans to evaluate system performance

Planning and scheduling deployment activities and resolving release pipeline issues

Maintaining deep knowledge of SPP's architecture and technology portfolio

Creating and communicating technology standards and policies

Designing and overseeing implementation of integrated systems and databases

Ensuring system and software integrations meet functional and compliance requirements

Conducting application testing (unit, system, regression, performance, acceptance)

Writing and translating code to enhance application performance

Providing architectural consulting across engineering and development teams

Serving as the organizational subject matter expert in SRE

Qualification

SaaS cloud-based infrastructureTerraformKubernetesAWSCI/CDPythonDockerCommunicationProblem-solvingMentoringCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, related field, or equivalent work experience

10+ years of experience building highly available systems and supporting SaaS cloud-based infrastructure

Experience with terraform, Docker, Kubernetes or other Infrastructure/Configuration-as-code tooling

Experience using at least one scripting language such as Python, bash, PowerShell or similar

Experience deploying to cloud-based technology (AWS)

Experience with continuous integration (CI/CD) and automated build tools

Ability to tackle problems both at large scale and the small scale

Good understanding of application/infrastructure security

Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate with distributed teams

Preferred

Familiar with DevOps environments / Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Good knowledge of algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design

Experience with integration tools: Bitbucket, GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, DroneCI, Docker etc

Expert knowledge of Unix/Linux systems is often essential, including basic command-line proficiency, system administration tasks, and troubleshooting skills

Benefits

Competitive and transparent pay with bonus opportunities

Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance

Relocation bonus (if applicable)

Hybrid working environment for positions that are eligible

Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a pension (defined benefit plan) fully funded by SPP