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Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

FornaxTech·McLean, Virginia or Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Posted Oct 27, 2026

FornaxTech is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of AWS-hosted platforms. You will set the standards for how services are built, deployed and run, lead incident response, and make sure every major failure ends with a fix, not just a restart.

What you would work on

  • Designing and running AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt

  • Building and improving CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable releases

  • Defining SLOs, alerting and on-call practices with service teams

  • Leading incident management and running blameless root cause analysis

  • Reducing toil through automation and platform improvements

  • Mentoring SREs and platform engineers and setting engineering standards

What they are looking for

  • Several years in SRE, DevOps or platform engineering, including time in a lead role

  • Strong AWS cloud infrastructure experience

  • Hands-on Terraform and Terragrunt

  • Proven incident management and RCA experience

  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling

  • Clear communication with engineering and business stakeholders

Role details

  • Locations: McLean, Virginia or Wilmington, North Carolina

  • Work model: Hybrid, onsite 2 days a week

  • Engagement: W2

  • Work authorization: US Citizens and Green Card holders only

Skills

  • sre
  • aws
  • terraform
  • terragrunt
  • incident-management
  • platform-engineering
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), FornaxTech, DevOps Society