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First Citizens Bank · 6 hours ago

Lead Data Platform SRE

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date7+ years exp

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced SRE Lead to build and maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure supporting their data engineering platform. This role focuses on ensuring operational excellence, automation, cost optimization, and disaster recovery while mentoring a growing team.

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Responsibilities

Maintain highly available, fault-tolerant data platforms on Snowflake, dbt Cloud, and AWS; establish SLOs/SLAs and implement monitoring to meet them
Own incident response processes, postmortem culture, and continuous improvement; reduce MTTR through root cause analysis and preventative measures
Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging across data infrastructure using tools like Splunk, Dynatrace or similar, design dashboards for real-time visibility into system health
Maintain dbt Cloud jobs, Airflow DAGs, and Snowflake performance
Design anomaly detection and proactive alerting to prevent data incidents before they impact users
Lead IaC initiatives using Terraform for AWS resources, Snowflake provisioning, and dbt Cloud configuration
Manage deployment pipelines, scaling policies, and resource provisioning to reduce manual toil
Build self-service tools and runbooks enabling engineers to safely operate infrastructure
Conduct regular cost audits; optimize Snowflake warehouse sizing, query performance, and cluster configurations; implement auto-suspend/auto-resume policies
Monitor cloud resource utilization across compute, storage, and data transfer; identify cost-saving opportunities and implement chargeback models
Balance performance with cost through intelligent caching, compression, materialized views, and query optimization recommendations
Enforce RBAC/ABAC policies, network segmentation, and encryption at rest/in-transit; manage secrets, API keys, and credentials
Take part in security reviews, penetration testing, and threat modeling; maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans
Lead and mentor junior SREs; establish technical standards, best practices, and on-call rotations
Drive documentation culture; maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and troubleshooting guides for operational knowledge transfer
Collaborate with data engineers on reliability concerns; advise on architecture decisions with production readiness in mind
Forecast infrastructure capacity needs; plan for growth and resource scaling aligned with business requirements
Regularly test disaster recovery procedures; maintain backups, perform failover drills, and document recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs)

Qualification

Snowflake PlatformInfrastructure as CodeData orchestrationObservability toolsCI/CD & Git workflowsAWS servicesLinux/Unix administrationPythonSQLIncident managementSystems thinkingProactive mindsetCommunicationMentoring capabilities

Required

Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
Snowflake Platform (deep operational knowledge: warehouses, clustering, query optimization, costs)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar (AWS-focused preferred)
Data orchestration: Airflow, Dagster, dbt Cloud operational patterns
Observability tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent
CI/CD & Git workflows: GitHub, GitLab, AZDO or similar
AWS services[Data]: EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, Lambda, networking, and cost management
Linux/Unix system administration and troubleshooting
Python or SQL for automation and tooling
Incident management and postmortem discipline
7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
3+ years in a lead or senior technical role
2+ years supporting data platforms or analytics infrastructure (Snowflake, dbt, data warehouses)

Company

First Citizens Bank

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First Citizens Bank provides banking services, essential business and professional services, wealth management capabilities, and more.
dateFounded in 1898
location
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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http://www.firstcitizens.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$33M
2021-05-07Post Ipo Debt· $10M
2018-08-29Post Ipo Debt· $23M
1986-10-31IPO

Leadership Team

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Craig Nix
Chief Financial Officer
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Samantha Bureau - Johnson
SVP & Director, Customer Contact Center
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