Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Allergan Aesthetics

8 hours ago

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$142k - $269k/yr

Responsibilities

Define and champion SLO/SLI frameworks and error-budget decision making.
Own observability strategy covering metrics, logs, traces, and actionable alerting.
Lead capacity planning, load testing, resilience testing, production readiness reviews, and release-quality improvements.
Automate toil reduction through self-healing systems and improved observability.
Gather and analyze operating-system and application metrics for performance tuning and fault finding.
Contribute Terraform infrastructure code and Kubernetes configuration within Cloud Platform standards.
Own incident response processes, participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and lead blameless root-cause analysis.
Define reliability, scalability, security, backup, recovery, alerting, runbook, and SLO standards.
Advise on architecture decisions by assessing failure modes, redundancy, scaling limits, and alerting requirements.
Mentor senior-level DevOps and Software Engineers and provide technical leadership for strategic architecture and platform projects.

Proven experience running SLO/error-budget programs and incident management for large-scale production systems.
Deep experience with observability platforms such as Datadog and alert design.
Working proficiency with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS, including reading, reviewing, and contributing infrastructure code.
Strong scripting or programming skills, such as Python or Go, for automation and tooling.
Preferred: hands-on experience using or building agentic AI tools such as Claude Code or MCP-based integrations with appropriate guardrails and human oversight.

Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.
Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.
The role includes approximately 5% travel.
Base compensation is listed as $141,500-$268,500 yearly.