Site Reliability and DevOps Engineering Lead

Merative

Platform Reliability & DevOps Engineering Lead at Micromedex by Merative ensuring high availability of clinical decision support systems. Leading DevOps strategy and team with focus on operational excellence.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $131,381 - $197,072 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow Platform / DevOps engineers
Build a high-performing Platform team
Drive accountability for platform reliability and delivery outcomes
Lead vendors to deliver capabilities in production.
Ensure platform capabilities accelerate product delivery, remove bottlenecks.
Defines and enforces platform engineering standards and DevOps practices across all teams and vendors
Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost efficiency
Define operational standards, runbooks, and reliability practices
Accountable for platform reliability outcomes at enterprise/product level
Act as technical authority across platform, reliability, and delivery
Define platform strategy and roadmap
Govern delivery across internal teams and vendors
Own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Lead resilience engineering, observability, and failure design
Drive proactive risk reduction and continuous improvement
Own incident management frameworks and continuous improvement
Own end-to-end pipeline architecture and release automation
Standardize, secure, and fully automate pipelines
Drive continuous integration, delivery, and validation practices
Lead Sev1 response, escalation, and recovery
Own RCA and drive systemic fixes (not point fixes)
Introduce AI-enabled pipeline optimization and quality gates
Embed AI into monitoring, risk prediction, and CI/CD optimization
Drive automation to reduce operational toil and improve decision-making

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
6-10 years of hands-on experience in software operations, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, including managing large-scale, mission-critical systems.
Clear and confident communication skills with ability to lead teams and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and architecture teams.
Proven track record ensuring high availability and performance in production environments, with expertise in fault-tolerant, distributed system design.
Excellent understanding of modern software delivery pipelines and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, configuration management, and version control (Git).
Exceptional problem-solving skills, with experience diagnosing complex system issues under pressure and driving them to resolution.
Strong proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, or Java) for automation and tool integration.
Self-driven and proactive, with a passion for automating manual processes and continuously improving systems to enhance reliability and team productivity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote first / work from home culture
Flexible vacation to help you rest, recharge, and connect with loved ones
Paid leave benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance
401k retirement savings plan
Infertility benefits
Tuition reimbursement, life insurance, EAP – and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringCI/CDconfiguration managementversion controlPythonBashJavaautomationperformance optimization

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingself-drivenproactiveaccountabilitycontinuous improvementmentoringrisk reduction