SRE & Stability Program Director

Industry: Banking, Financial Services & Payments

Level: Director / Senior DirectorPHX, AZ (Onsite)

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced SRE & Stability Program Director to lead enterprise-wide reliability, stability, cloud resiliency, availability, recovery, monitoring, observability, automation, and AIOps initiatives across critical banking, financial services, and payment platforms. This leader will establish and execute a comprehensive technology stability strategy covering applications, APIs, microservices, databases, middleware, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, messaging platforms, payment systems, and enterprise integrations. The role will drive the transformation from reactive production operations to proactive, predictive, automated, and self-healing operations. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in highly available, highly regulated, transaction-intensive environments where availability, transaction integrity, performance, resiliency, disaster recovery, and customer experience are critical.15+ years of technology, engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or production operations experience.8+ years of senior technology leadership experience. Proven leadership in SRE, stability, resiliency, availability, monitoring, observability, and recovery programs. Strong experience in banking, financial services, payments, fintech, or other mission-critical transaction environments. Proven experience leading enterprise-wide reliability transformation. Strong cloud architecture and cloud resiliency experience. Experience with Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, RTO/RPO, failover, and recovery engineering. Strong observability and monitoring strategy experience. Experience implementing AIOps, automation, and self-healing. Strong experience with distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, messaging, and cloud platforms. Experience leading Sev1/Sev2 incidents. Experience managing large cross-functional engineering organizations. Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.