Manager Production Site Reliability Engineering
Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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About the Role
You will lead production site reliability operations for the production control plane, including availability, performance, incident response, monitoring, configuration management, capacity planning, and infrastructure re-architecture. You will hire and develop SREs and database engineers, establish operational practices, and ensure services are production-ready, observable, and resilient.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or infrastructure operations
- At least 2 years in a team lead or management role
- Experience operating production web stacks at scale
- Linux systems knowledge, including networking, systemd, package management, firewall configuration, and performance tuning
- Experience building and operating monitoring and alerting systems
- Experience with configuration management at scale, such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
- Written and verbal communication skills for runbooks, postmortems, incident communications, and cross-functional coordination
- Experience hiring and building engineering teams
- Experience with database replication, backup strategies, and failure modes
- Experience leading production migrations or major infrastructure transitions
- Experience with Harvester or similar HCI platforms for production workloads on VMs
- Experience with Redis cluster architecture, failover, and performance tuning
- Experience with HAProxy, keepalived, and load-balancing strategies
- Experience with PCI compliance environments
- Experience writing PHP
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN or edge platforms and DNS cutovers
Responsibilities
- Build, hire, mentor, and lead a Production Site Reliability Engineering team
- Own the availability, performance, and operability of the production web stack
- Lead incident response, postmortems, runbook improvements, and alerting improvements
- Manage configuration management for consistent and auditable production infrastructure
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are observable, deployable, and documented before release
- Drive control plane re-architecture, parallel runs, cutover, and production-readiness validation
- Set the operational roadmap for capacity planning, scaling, disaster recovery, and resilient architecture
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across the production stack
- Manage production database and caching environments, including replication, tuning, backups, and failover testing
- Foster operational excellence through SLOs, operational reviews, blameless postmortems, and deployment-process improvements
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) matching 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting
- $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement
- 11 holidays, paid time off accrual, and PTO rollover
- Increased PTO at 3- and 10-year anniversaries
- One-month paid sabbatical every five years
- Annual anniversary bonus
- Remote office setup stipend
- Monthly internet reimbursement up to $75
- Monthly gym membership reimbursement up to $50
- Company-paid Wellable subscription