FAQs
What is the main responsibility of the Vice President of Platform Reliability Engineering and Management (SRE) role?
The main responsibility of this role is to create observability standards, tools, and practices for teams, design and implement observability platforms, collaborate with technical teams to understand their needs, provide technical mentorship, promote enhanced observability opportunities, and create documentation and standards for observability practices.
What technical skills are required for this position?
Technical skills required for this position include hands-on experience in development, strong automation skills, understanding of SRE principles, experience with observability solutions like New Relic, Dynatrace, Data Dog, OTEL/Grafana, familiarity with cloud infrastructure and platform services, knowledge of open standards like Open Telemetry, Open Metrics, and Open Tracing, and proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, and C.
What soft skills are important for someone in this role?
Important soft skills for this role include strong communication and collaboration abilities, passion for observability, automation-first mindset, continuous learning mindset to keep up with technology, and ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders from different areas of the organization.
What is the goal of the observability platform designed by the Vice President in this role?
The goal of the observability platform is to ensure that Jefferies operates a highly stable, reliable, and resilient front-to-back plant by providing teams with the tools and practices necessary to monitor, analyze, and improve their services through synthetic testing, metrics, traces, and logging.