O.C. Tanner

O.C. Tanner

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

USA - Utah-Salt Lake City-Headquarters

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonGoPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchAWSKubernetesTerraformDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaIncident ResponseBudgetingPerformance ManagementPlaywrightLeadership

About the role

  • O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences.
  • Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of reliability, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Support leaders to drive shared ownership of production services and embed reliability, observability, and operational excellence throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Build and evolve observability capabilities using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Coralogix, or similar tools, establishing enterprise standards for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Manage team capacity, hiring, performance management, career development, budgeting, and workforce planning to ensure effective support of business-critical services.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Support organizations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines, including 2+ years in a technical leadership or people management role.
  • Proven experience leading teams responsible for production operations, reliability engineering, incident management, and operational excellence.
  • Experience designing and implementing SRE practices, reliability programs, or operational maturity initiatives within growing engineering organizations.
  • Experience operating large-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms with high availability, performance, and scalability requirements.
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices and partnering with development teams to build reliable, resilient systems.
  • Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Coralogix, or similar technologies.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes in production environments.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading distributed or globally dispersed engineering teams.
  • Experience with multiple cloud providers or cloud-agnostic platform architectures.
  • Familiarity with security, compliance, governance, and operational risk management frameworks.
  • Proficiency with modern Infrastructure-as-Code and technologies such as Terraform, Golang, Python, Playwright, and Performance Monitoring tools.
  • Experience with relational and distributed data technologies such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis/ElastiCache, or Aurora.
  • Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, SNS/SQS, or similar event-driven technologies.
  • Strong understanding of cost optimization, platform sustainability, and engineering efficiency metrics.

Benefits

  • Establish team priorities, goals, and success metrics aligned with business objectives, customer needs, and platform health.
  • Collaborate with global engineering teams in a follow-the-sun support model, ensuring seamless 24x7 coverage, effective operational handoffs, and consistent service ownership.
  • Own on-call programs, incident management practices, and operational health metrics, driving improvements in alert quality, operational efficiency, and toil reduction.

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