Principal Site Reliability Specialist, IT Operations

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About the role

  • Site Reliability Principal Specialist at Sherweb responsible for enhancing reliability across IT Operations platforms and services. Implementing proactive and scalable approaches to site reliability while influencing technical direction.

Responsibilities

  • Implement a proactive, resilient, and scalable approach to site reliability across all Sherweb platforms.
  • Shape how reliability is designed, governed, and sustained across systems.
  • Elevate reliability from reactive operations to an engineered discipline ensuring platforms operate predictably.
  • Define and evolve reliability standards across platforms and services, including service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs).
  • Establish a shared reliability language and expectations across IT Operations Teams.
  • Drive consistency in monitoring and operational practices across services, systems and platforms.
  • Influence system and operational design to improve reliability, availability and resilience.
  • Drive the reduction of operational toil through automation, AI, platform capabilities, and repeatable operational patterns.
  • Improve end to end observability and system understanding.
  • Enable teams to take end to end ownership of platform reliability.
  • Partner closely with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure access, tooling, and visibility support full operational ownership.
  • Act as a reliability advocate and technical advisor during operational reviews, incident learning, and platform evolution.
  • Partner closely with DevOps teams to implement reliability and observability as code, ensuring integration with CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, operating and improving largescale, production environments.
  • Demonstrated experience improving the reliability, availability, and scalability of production systems, platforms and services.
  • Hands-on experience operating distributed systems in business critical and customer facing environments.
  • Proven experience reducing manual operational work through automation and standardization.
  • Experience defining and applying reliability standards (e.g., SLOs, error budgets) across multiple services or platforms.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, and operational resilience.
  • Solid experience with observability practices (metrics, logs, traces) and system diagnostics.
  • Ability to analyze complex systems end to end across infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
  • Strong systems thinking with a track record of addressing reliability issues through design rather than reactive intervention.
  • Experience acting as a trusted technical advisor to senior engineers and leaders.
  • Ability to clearly communicate complex reliability concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • A fast-paced work environment that adapts to you
  • A friendly and diverse work culture with inclusion and equality at the heart of our actions
  • State-of-the art technology and tools
  • A results-oriented culture where talent, action, and thinking outside the box are given due recognition
  • Annual salary review based on performance
  • Generous and caring colleagues of various professional and cultural backgrounds
  • A flexible total compensation offer
  • Vacation time that considers your previous experience
  • Advanced paid hours to recharge your batteries (holidays and mobile days)
  • Flexible benefits plan that adapts to your needs
  • Flexible savings fund option
  • A monthly home internet allowance
  • Considerable growth opportunities
  • A career path with opportunities to learn and grow
  • Proximity to your direct manager and open, honest communication to support your development
  • Multiple initial and on-the-job training opportunities and tools to track your progress and help you scale up in your career
  • "Sherweblife" - a rich calendar of activities that allow us to gather virtually and face-to-face throughout the year

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$101,990 - CA$145,700 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Distributed Systems

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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