Site reliability engineering manager

The Cloud team at Lucid Motors is currently seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Lucid Motors’ cloud infrastructure and production services. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with people management, ensuring systems are highly available while developing and empowering a team of SRE engineers.

Responsibilities

SRE Leadership & Reliability Ownership

Own the availability, performance, and reliability of cloud services deployed and operated in KSA.

Define, implement, and track SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.

Lead the architecture and governance of highly available and disaster‑resilient systems, ensuring DR strategies are tested and maintained.

Drive capacity planning, auto‑scaling, and performance tuning across Kubernetes‑based platforms.

Own monitoring, observability, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and logging platforms.

Lead incident response, impact assessment, and root‑cause analysis for complex production issues.

Manage a team of SRE engineers, providing technical direction, career coaching, and performance feedback.

Review and approve infrastructure code, deployment configurations, automation scripts, and SRE tooling.

Foster a culture of ownership, learning, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.

Lead hiring, onboarding, and skill development initiatives for the SRE function.

Ensure fair, sustainable, and well‑documented on‑call rotations.

Oversee production environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS.

Govern Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices using Terraform and configuration management tools.

Lead CI/CD strategy and implementation using Argo CD, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and Git Lab.

Ensure secure and reliable deployment of microservices and data pipelines on Kubernetes using Helm.

Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Security, and Architecture teams.

Oversee the reliability and scaling of platform services such as Kafka, Spark, Trino, Airflow, MQTT, and microservices ecosystems.

Ensure stable operations of No SQL and RDBMS systems including Elastic Search, Mongo DB, Postgre SQL, and My SQL.

Support distributed data processing and messaging systems, addressing performance and scalability challenges.

Requirements And Skills

B. S. or M. S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or Platform Engineering.

2–4 years of experience managing or leading SRE/Dev Ops engineers.

Strong hands‑on experience with OCI and AWS cloud platforms.

Solid expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud‑native architectures.

Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash/Shell, or similar languages.

Strong experience with incident management, observability, and performance optimization.

Fluent in English, with experience collaborating across regions and time zones.

Experience scaling SRE practices across multiple teams or services.

Familiarity with compliance, security, and regulated cloud environments.

Compensation & Benefits

Lucid offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; and a 401(k) retirement plan. Eligible employees may also participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual cash incentive program. Incentive and equity awards, if applicable, are determined based on individual performance, role scope, market considerations, and overall company results, in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

Equal Opportunity: At Lucid, we believe diversity strengthens everything we build. Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive workplace for all. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal laws and regulations.

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