Senior Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

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We are seeking a highly motivated and technically strong Senior Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to provide technical leadership within the DCOE Reliability Engineering organization. This role is critical to advancing platform reliability, operational resilience, automation, and AI-driven operations across a portfolio of enterprise platforms.

The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical leader and trusted advisor, driving reliability engineering practices, modernization, automation, observability, and operational excellence across the organization. The role requires deep expertise in SRE principles, cloud and infrastructure operations, AIOps, automation engineering, service resilience, and continuous improvement.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who excels through influence, technical expertise, collaboration, and execution rather than direct people management.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering & Operational Excellence

• Lead and advance SRE practices across critical production platforms.
• Define, establish, and monitor platform reliability objectives, including availability, resiliency, performance, and recovery metrics.
• Champion improvements in incident management, problem management, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
• Develop proactive reliability strategies that reduce operational risk and improve customer experience.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in reliability engineering, providing guidance and recommendations across technology teams.

Automation & AIOps

• Lead automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, eliminate operational toil, and improve service reliability.
• Design and implement automated remediation, self-healing capabilities, and operational workflows.
• Drive adoption of AI-driven operational capabilities to enhance event correlation, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and intelligent incident response.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), CI/CD integration, and automated governance controls.
• Develop and enhance enterprise observability solutions leveraging monitoring, logging, tracing, and analytics platforms.
• Establish standardized monitoring frameworks, operational dashboards, and reliability scorecards.
• Drive advancements in telemetry, operational insights, and performance engineering.

Modernization & Transformation

• Support cloud modernization, platform simplification, and technology transformation initiatives.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams to embed reliability requirements throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Influence the adoption of engineering standards, best practices, and operating models across enterprise platforms.
• Act as a key contributor to strategic technology transformation initiatives and reliability-focused roadmaps.

Technical Leadership & Engineering Enablement

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineers and technical leads.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Build organizational capability in automation, AI, cloud operations, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Lead communities of practice and drive knowledge-sharing across engineering teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders and technology partners to align on reliability, resilience, and modernization priorities.

Required Qualifications

Education

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Relevant industry certifications are considered an asset.

Experience

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Operations, or DevOps.
• 3+ years of experience providing technical leadership for enterprise-scale platforms and complex engineering initiatives.
• Proven experience leading critical production support and reliability programs through influence and collaboration.
• Demonstrated success driving enterprise-wide reliability, automation, and modernization initiatives.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of SRE principles, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and reliability frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and AppDynamics.
• Experience implementing automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with AIOps tools, event management platforms, and intelligent automation solutions.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
• Experience integrating operational platforms, ITSM processes, and automated remediation capabilities.

Success Measures

The successful candidate will:

• Improve platform reliability, resiliency, and operational stability.
• Increase automation adoption and reduce manual operational effort.
• Enhance incident prevention and reduction through AIOps capabilities.
• Accelerate cloud modernization and technology transformation outcomes.
• Strengthen engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
• Build and elevate reliability engineering capabilities across the organization.
• Drive measurable contributions toward BMO's Ambition 2030 objectives through innovation, accountability, automation, and engineering excellence.

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

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As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

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