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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

O Fallon, MO ยท On-site

$53.25 - $70.75/hr

Title and Summary Lead Site Reliability Engineer Summary Overview: Who is Mastercard? At Mastercard technology, we work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Plano, TX ยท On-site

$53.25 - $70.75/hr

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms, Web Hosting team , you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple ...

As one of our Lead Site Reliability Engineers, you will combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic technical leadership across infrastructure and software development. You will own the ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Plano, TX ยท On-site

$53.25 - $70.75/hr

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms, Web Hosting team , you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Plano, TX ยท On-site

$53.25 - $70.75/hr

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms, Web Hosting team , you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Charlotte, NC ยท On-site

$55.75 - $74/hr

Lead adoption of SRE principles, including: * SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets * Reliability engineering practices across services * Proactive monitoring and resilience design * Champion a shift from ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Charlotte, NC ยท On-site

$55.75 - $74/hr

We are seeking a senior SRE practitioner to lead and accelerate transformation from traditional L2 production support toward an SRE operating model. This role will help define, implement, and embed ...

Lead SRE Engineer

San Leandro, CA ยท On-site

$63 - $83.75/hr

Lead SRE Engineer San Leandro, CA 6 to 12+ Months Only USC & GC * Min 15+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering * With development background in Java microservices & Spring Web ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Charlotte, NC ยท On-site

$55.75 - $74/hr

Lead adoption of SRE principles, including: * SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets * Reliability engineering practices across services * Proactive monitoring and resilience design * Champion a shift from ...

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate sector, Enterprise Technology team, you are an integral part of a team that develops high-quality architecture solutions for ...

The Role We're hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across our platform. You'll build and ...

The Role We're hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across our platform. You'll build and ...

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As of Jul 26, 2026, the average hourly pay for lead sre in the United States is $28.88, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $17.79 and $35.82 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are Lead SREs?

Lead Site Reliability Engineers (Lead SREs) are senior technical professionals responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of large-scale systems and applications. They lead SRE teams, design and implement infrastructure improvements, and establish best practices for monitoring, incident response, and automation. Lead SREs also collaborate with development and operations teams to promote a culture of reliability and efficiency, often mentoring junior engineers and driving the adoption of SRE principles within an organization.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Lead SRE, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need deep expertise in systems administration, cloud infrastructure, automation, and a solid background in computer science or related fields. Familiarity with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, and monitoring platforms, along with certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, is highly valuable. Leadership, problem-solving, and clear communication are crucial soft skills for managing teams and collaborating across departments. These skills ensure reliable, scalable systems and efficient incident response, which are critical for maintaining high service availability.

What are some common challenges a Lead SRE faces when managing a team, and how can they be effectively addressed?

A Lead SRE often encounters challenges such as balancing incident response with long-term reliability projects, fostering collaboration between development and operations, and ensuring team members are upskilled on evolving technologies. To address these, it's helpful to implement structured incident management processes, encourage a blameless postmortem culture, and prioritize regular knowledge-sharing sessions. Proactively managing workloads and setting clear reliability targets can also help the team focus on both immediate and strategic goals.
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Infographic showing various Lead Sre job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 74% Full Time, 2% Part Time, and 24% Contract. Highlights an 92% In-person, 4% Hybrid, and 4% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $60,062 per year, or $28.9 per hour.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Mastercard, Inc.

O Fallon, MO โ€ข On-site

$53.25 - $70.75/hr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 11 days ago


Job description

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Job Description Summary
Overview:
Who is Mastercard? At Mastercard technology, we work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere, by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results. Technology at Mastercard. What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable. And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day. Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what's next.
Role:
The Business Operations (Biz Ops) team is seeking a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)The role of Business Operations Organization is to be the production readiness steward for Mastercard products. As a Business Operations SRE, we are responsible for ensuring that our platform is stable and healthy. We break down barriers to run our products by fostering developer run ownership and empowering developers to build resilient products. We support our developers during the application build phase in software run principals that includes operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring that leads to fault-tolerant, scalable products. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an agile and learning culture. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our Java, Spring Framework applications, supporting essential services that power Mastercard's global operations. As a leader thought leader in your field, you will bring technical expertise, a passion for automation, and the ability to mentor and guide less experienced junior engineers. We support daily operations with a hyper focus on triage, root cause by understanding the business impact of our products and subsequently performing blameless post-mortems. The goal of every Business Operations team is to engage early in the development lifecycle to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience and increase the overall value of supported applications. Business Operations teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments. Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle.
All about you-Team Specific Skills:
Biz Ops engineers engage in various roles:- Operational Readiness Architect: Ensure application health, performance, and capacity; support pre-launch activities.- Site Reliability Engineering: Design resilient infrastructure, perform root cause analysis, and automate alerts.- DevOps/Automation: Improve service lifecycle, support CI/CD pipelines, and reduce manual intervention.- ITSM Practices: Analyze platform activities and provide feedback to development teams. Role qualifications: Ideal candidates have:- BS in Computer Science or related field.- Proficiency in Java, Spring Framework, Python, or Go.- Strong DevOps and configuration management skills.-
Experience with distributed systems and automation.- Problem-solving, communication, and leadership abilities.- Passion for observability and continuous improvement.- Willingness to learn and collaborate across teams.
Target Salary Range:
122,000 - 165,000 - 207,000
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
  • Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
  • Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
  • Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
  • Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.