Site Reliability Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead the SRE team within Infrastructure & Security to ensure mission-critical deployments are reliable and secure. You will manage team priorities, capacity, and execution across on-prem DoD and AWS environments.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the SRE team through hiring, coaching, and performance management
• Own capacity and work planning by managing incoming requests and engineering work
• Coordinate delivery across platform, application, security, and customer success teams
• Set the reliability roadmap based on customer needs and operational risks
• Establish operational ownership for production deployments and escalation paths
• Support team-led incident response and blameless postmortems
• Guide technical priorities for infrastructure, automation, and observability
• Make reliability and workload visible using SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics
• Reduce operational toil by supporting automation of repetitive work

Required qualifications

• Active Secret clearance
• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related role
• Substantial infrastructure and operations experience
• Experience directly managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring
• Experience planning team capacity, prioritizing competing requests, and coordinating engineering work across teams
• A track record of delivering reliability improvements while managing ongoing operational responsibilities
• Experience with incident response and post-incident review practices
• Technical judgment to evaluate engineering proposals and guide prioritization
• Clear communication to explain constraints and negotiate scope with stakeholders
• Practical experience operating production systems
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go, or Bash)
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment, troubleshooting, and operations

Nice to have

• Experience leading teams supporting mission-critical customer deployments
• Experience managing engineering programs or coordinating delivery across multiple customer environments
• Experience operating in DoD, classified, or air-gapped environments
• Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, and ICD 503
• Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for distributed systems
• GitOps practices and toolchains
• On-prem virtualization experience with VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, Hyper-V, or similar platforms
• Application development experience, especially TypeScript or Node.js
• Relevant certifications, such as AWS DevOps Engineer or CKA/CKAD
• Active Security+ or another DoD 8570.01-approved security credential, or the ability to obtain one within 3 months of employment

About the company

Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination. Founded in 2019, it is a distributed team of builders backed by leading investors.