Altera
AIOPs Observability/SRE Lead
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Onsite Requirement: This position requires regular in-office work and is an onsite role based in San Jose, CA.
- At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise.
- Define SRE practice including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets across critical platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the SRE team including hiring, mentoring, and developing reliability engineering capabilities.
- Drive automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve platform reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to embed reliability into platform design.
- Collaborate with Integration teams, IT infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, and external service providers to design and implement reliable connectivity solutions.
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to incorporate appropriate security controls, segmentation, firewall policies, VPN connectivity, and access controls into network architecture.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for AIOps architectures, topologies, configurations, standards, policies, migration plans, and operational procedures.
- Establish architecture standards, design principles, and best practices that promote consistency, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, with 10+ years of professional experience in enterprise networking.
- 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps with a focus on platform reliability.
- Proven experience leading technical engineering teams in a senior or management capacity.
- Experience driving automation and toil reduction programs across infrastructure and platform teams.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and containerized environments.
- We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability frameworks.
- Strong background in observability, incident management, and blameless post-mortem culture.
- Excellent communication skills for stakeholder reporting and cross-functional collaboration.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing SRE practices in semiconductor, HPC, or EDA-dependent environments.
- Familiarity with AIOps platforms and AI-assisted incident management tooling.
- Knowledge of chaos engineering practices and resiliency testing frameworks.
Compensation
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
- $187,000 - $270,700 USD
Benefits
- Manage on-call processes, escalation procedures, and team wellbeing for 24x7 operations.
Company info
- We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead the SRE function.
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