Capital One
Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)
$179K–$205K
Riverwoods, IL · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- At least 8 years in each of the two stated experience areas; preferred: 4+ years defining and driving IaC/CI/CD strategies.
- 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 cloud operations resilience engineering, building reliable large-scale production platforms and setting organization-wide infrastructure and reliability strategy.
What you'll do
- Set architectural direction for resilient production systems, multi-cloud IaC, and reliability objectives.
- Lead automation, incident response, root-cause analysis, outage prevention, capacity forecasting, and infrastructure cost optimization.
- Mentor SREs and promote reliability practices across engineering teams.
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; 4+ years defining and driving IaC/CI/CD strategies; experience with 2 or more high-performance languages.
- Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes or Serverless, SLOs and observability, cloud security governance, open-source or platform innovation, and Generative AI/Headless AI for operations automation.
Pay
$179,400 - $204,700 USD base salary (Riverwoods, IL); performance-based incentive compensation may also be available, with no amount stated.
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Serverless, IaC/CI/CD, Zero Trust, Secrets Management
AI focus
Preferred experience leveraging Generative AI/Headless AI for advanced operations automation.
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