Define and own the enterprise reliability testing strategy, governance model, and multi-year roadmap across cloud services.
Establish organization-wide standards, benchmarks, and release gates aligned to SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and risk tolerance.
Design and implement chaos engineering and resilience testing frameworks to proactively identify and mitigate systemic weaknesses.
Partner with cloud architects and engineering leaders to challenge designs, influence architectural decisions, and ensure reliability by design.
Oversee incident readiness and post-incident validation, ensuring corrective actions translate into measurable improvements in availability, latency, and MTTR.
Evaluate, standardize, and evolve testing, observability, and reliability tooling, including reference architectures and best practices.
Lead enablement and maturity uplift through mentoring, playbooks, training, and communities of practice, influencing quarterly and annual planning with reliability insights and ROI analysis.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, with at least 3 years focused on cloud, DevOps, or reliability engineering.
Hands-on experience with cloud and infrastructure technologies, including Kubernetes, Terraform, and either AWS or GCP (on-prem experience a plus).
Proven expertise in performance, load, and resilience testing, with the ability to design end-to-end test strategies.
Strong background in observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Datadog, or AppDynamics.
Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash to enable automation and advanced testing scenarios.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and influence cross-functional teams, including senior engineers and architects, without direct authority.
Excellent communication skills, with experience translating technical reliability risks and metrics into executive-ready insights.

Benefits

Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
Company paid holidays
Personal Days
Sick Leave
Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
Life and disability insurance
Employee assistance programs
Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Quality Engineeringcloud engineeringDevOpsreliability engineeringperformance testingload testingresilience testingscriptingprogrammingautomation

Soft Skills

mentoringinfluencingcommunicationcollaborationleadership