Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering

PanAgora Asset Management is focused on transforming financial lives by empowering its employees and creating a flexible work environment. The Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering will lead multiple teams to enhance reliability across value streams, develop talent, and drive operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead SRE managers and senior individual contributors, develop leaders through coaching and delegation, and build a strong bench of technical and leadership talent
• Drive talent reviews, succession planning, organizational design discussions, performance management, and development planning for high-potential team members
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, innovation, and continuous learning across the organization
• Define multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs aligned with business objectives, and balance investments across reliability, scalability, cost, and security priorities
• Develop strategies to reduce technical debt and operational toil, plan capacity and resources across teams, and lead initiatives that span multiple teams or value streams
• Make build versus buy versus partner decisions for platform capabilities and support technology investment decisions within the area of responsibility
• Own reliability across multiple critical systems or value streams, including SLO and SLI frameworks, operational metrics, incident management, on-call practices, and disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities
• Provide technical direction on major infrastructure decisions, participate in architecture reviews, and drive adoption of best practices across teams, including infrastructure as code, GitOps, observability, CI/CD, and zero-trust security architecture
• Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Security, Compliance, Finance, and executive stakeholders on reliability requirements, roadmap planning, infrastructure initiatives, and broader technology strategy
• Communicate vision, strategy, progress, incident summaries, and investment needs to stakeholders at all levels, including VP and Director audiences, while influencing technical and process decisions across the organization

Requirements:

• 3 to 5 years of management experience or equivalent, ideally including experience managing managers
• 8+ years of hands-on technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Operational Excellence
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams through operational challenges
• Deep technical knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, and modern infrastructure practices
• Strong understanding of SRE principles and experience applying them at scale
• Experience setting strategy and executing multi-quarter initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to develop managers and senior engineers
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership
• Strong judgment in balancing competing priorities and making trade-offs
• Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams
• Experience managing SRE organizations with multiple teams
• Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience
• Deep understanding of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI DSS, and FINRA
• Track record of leading transformational initiatives such as cloud migrations or platform rebuilds
• AWS certifications at the professional level
• Experience with large-scale Kubernetes implementations
• Background in Agile or Scrum practices and metrics-driven management
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Previous experience in Fortune 500 companies or similarly complex organizations