Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find and fix exploitable attack vectors. They are looking for an engineering leader to build and lead the Site Reliability function, responsible for hiring a team and driving operational excellence to meet customer and business expectations.
Responsibilities
- Establish an SRE function
- Build a SRE team, from scratch. Hire experienced site reliability staff and build a team of 4-6 in year one
- Professionalize incident management. Define and document incident processes and practices for your SRE team and for the application feature teams. Make tool and vendor decisions to support processes
- Drive incident professionalism and reliability culture across the engineering organization through training and process adoption
- Use design reviews, code reviews, and blameless retrospectives to drive a culture of quality and excellence in engineering
- Balance incident response while also executing on a roadmap of observability and reliability engineering initiatives
- Hire and directly manage site reliability engineers
- As a Manager, you will be responsible for: Recruiting and onboarding talented individuals to support our organizational goals, Mentoring, coaching, equipping, and developing your team, Recognizing and retaining high performers, Leading horizontally with peer Management & Senior Leaders
Skills
- Demonstrated experience leading hiring and growing SRE or Infrastructure teams
- Experience leading or building SRE functions, including incident management processes, on-call programs, SLO/SLA definition, and operational runbooks
- Previous career experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
- Comfortable in being hands-on while you grow and hire your team
- Deep hands on experience with observability: application performance management, logs and traces, and golden signals and service-specific metrics
- Experience in selecting and deploying incident management tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, FireHydrant,etc.) and creating decision making frameworks for vendor selection
- Strong working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) — infrastructure, networking, managed services, IAM, cost management. AWS preferred
- Experience in design practices like architecture decision records or RFCs in the infrastructure or platform engineering context
- Able to write clear, durable process documentation that engineering teams can adopt
- Experience in providing education and training on runbook development, on-call expectations, incident investigations, and running effective postmortems
- Ability to engage with Product and Engineering leaders to define SLOs and drive culture of ownership across teams
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers and engineering managers in remote or distributed environments
- Proven skills in managing a backlog of strategic roadmap initiatives and a competing stream of operational needs against capacity constraints
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to build, scale, and retain high performing engineering teams in remote or distributed environments
Benefits
- Equity package in the form of stock options
- Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave
- Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence
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