McGraw Hill · 7 hours ago
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$124K/yr - $155K/yr
5+ years expMcGraw Hill is a leading provider of digital educational resources and content, and they are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team of 6 Engineers for their Digital Platform Group. This role involves ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of K–12 learning platforms by collaborating with engineering and product teams and leveraging expertise in cloud infrastructure.
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Responsibilities
Lead a 6 member SRE team supporting production infrastructure and services
Manage backlog, sprint planning, and team velocity
Own reliability, uptime, security, cost, and performance of services
Define and monitor SLOs for application workloads
Plan on-call rotations and work to reduce alert fatigue
Forecast seasonal growth and capacity planning
Mentor engineers and foster professional growth
Report status and issues to leadership monthly
Partner with development teams
Collaborate with CyberSecurity on risk mitigation
Collaborate with FinOps on cost reduction
Design and troubleshoot highly-distributed, cloud-based production systems
Maintain infrastructure-as-code and monitoring-as-code practices
Improve system resiliency through failure injection and chaos testing
Participate in on-call rotation and resolve operational issues
Optimize existing systems for performance and cost
Ensure telemetry provides visibility to application performance
Support agile development practices and code reviews
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering roles supporting enterprise applications
Strong problem-solving, triage, and root cause analysis skills with a systems engineering mindset
Deep expertise in the AWS ecosystem, with hands-on experience across core services including primarily ECS, RDS, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking configurations
Expertise with Terraform for managing and automating scalable cloud infrastructure
Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) and managing end-to-end software delivery lifecycles
Strong familiarity with telemetry and observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog), including querying logs and metrics for performance monitoring
Benefits
A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.
Company
McGraw Hill
We are a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world.
1001-5000 employees
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President & CEO
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