Capital One
Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)
$179K–$225K
McLean, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
Richmond, VA - Experience
- At least 8 years in each of the two stated experience areas; preferred IaC/CI/CD experience is 4+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; Master’s Degree preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer immigration-related support for this position.
About the job
Leads reliability engineering for large-scale cloud production systems, setting resilience, automation, infrastructure, SLO, and cost-management strategies.
What you'll do
- Drive resilient production-system architecture, outage prevention, crisis response, and root-cause analysis.
- Define secure multi-cloud IaC strategy and organization-wide SLOs; improve automation, capacity planning, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor SRE teams and establish reliability practices across engineering organizations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 8 years of experience leading SRE or DevOps initiatives and defining technical roadmaps.
- At least 8 years of experience architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP).
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree.
- Experience with organizational IaC/CI/CD strategy, high-performance languages, distributed/cloud-native systems, observability and SLOs, cloud security, open-source or platform innovation, and Generative AI/Headless AI for operations automation.
Pay
$197,300 - $225,100 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $179,400 - $204,700 USD base salary (Richmond, VA)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Serverless, Zero Trust, Secrets Management, Generative AI/Headless AI
AI focus
Preferred experience leveraging Generative AI/Headless AI for advanced operations automation.
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