april
Fintech
SRE/DevOpsLead
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“SRE / DevOps Lead at april. Skills: SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Observability, Incident Response, IT Management. Own the reliability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure. Lead a team of 2 SREs”
What You'll Achieve.
make sure what we build runs the way our customers (and the IRS) expect; keeping the company secure and productive as we grow; engineers can find and fix problems before customers feel them; keep us SOC 2, SOC1 and STIG compliant and IRS-authorized; ship: fast, safe, observable, and reversible
Industry & Context.
find and fix problems before customers feel them
on-call practices, tax season — the highest-stakes window of our year
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering experience, 1y+ leading or managing engineers, Deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on GCP, Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform at real scale, programming or scripting fundamentals (Go, Python, or similar), track record of automating processes, Experience operating in a SOC 2 environment, supporting external comfort working alongside compliance and security partners, Experience with regulated workloads (IRS, financial services, healthcare, or similar), observability instincts: you've built dashboards, alerts, and SLOs in Datadog (or equivalent) that engineers actually rely on, Calm, clear leadership during incidents, coaching mindset for your team between them, Working knowledge of identity and endpoint tooling (Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf or Kandji), Clear written and spoken comfortable collaborating with our NYC team across time zones
Nice to Have
IRS e-file ecosystem, FTI handling, or fintech-grade data residency experience, Experience preparing infrastructure for a certification milestone (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC1, STIG), FinOps / cloud cost management experience, Database operations at scale (Postgres, Spanner, or similar), Experience standing up or scaling an IT function at a high-growth startup, 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
What You'll Do.
and security of the infrastructure
Lead a team of 2 SREs
Set the technical direction for our cloud platform
and on-call practices
Own april's IT function (identity
and reliability of april's GCP-based platform
Define and uphold our SLOs
and incident response practice
Build and operate our observability stack
Plan and execute capacity
Set the standard for how we ship: fast
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner closely with product engineering, security, and our compliance partners; collaborating with our NYC team across time zones
Communication Scope
Clear written and spoken comfortable collaborating with our NYC team across time zones
Process & Methodology
setting direction, defining SLOs, infra budgets, on-call priorities, and incident response practice, planning and executing capacity, load testing, and game days
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE As april's SRE / DevOps Lead, you'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure that powers our platform — a system trusted by leading wealth managers, banks, and consumer fintechs to handle some of the most sensitive financial data their users have. You'll lead a team of 2 SREs and partner closely with product engineering, security, and our compliance partners to make sure what we build runs the way our customers (and the IRS) expect This is a hands-on lead role. You'll set the technical direction for our cloud platform, deployment pipelines, observability, and on-call practices — and you'll write the code, configs, and runbooks that get us there. You'll also own april's IT function (identity, endpoints, SaaS) at a tighter scope, keeping the company secure and productive as we grow. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Lead and grow a team of 2 SREs, setting direction across SRE, DevOps, and IT. - Own the architecture, performance, and reliability of april's GCP-based platform — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and scale. - Define and uphold our SLOs, infra budgets, on-call priorities, and incident response practice. - Build and operate our observability stack so engineers can find and fix problems before customers feel them. - Partner with engineering and security on the controls, evidence, and audits that keep us SOC 2, SOC1 and STIG compliant and IRS-authorized. - Plan and execute capacity, load testing, and game days for tax season — the highest-stakes window of our year. - Own corporate IT: identity (Okta), Google Workspace, endpoint management (Jamf / Kandji), and the SaaS stack used across the company. - Set the standard for how we ship: fast, safe, observable, and reversible. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 7+ years of SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering experience, including 1y+ leading or managing engineers. - Deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on GCP — Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform at real scale, not just consumed o
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