Ally Financial Inc.
SRE Transformation Lead
Max Supplier Pay Rate: $162
Location: Onsite. Charlotte, NC & work from Ally Office per client policy (currently 3 days a week ) **looking for local candidates**
Notes from Hiring Team:
Lead enterprise wide SRE/reliability transformation end to end
Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders
Define and socialize a target SRE operating model
Stand up and run a governing council/CoE
Set SRE practices, policies and guardrails for an entire organization
Define a roadmap for transforming teams to SRE through coaching and enablement, and execute it at scale
Define KPIs to measure the business outcomes of transformation
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Role Summary
The SRE Transformation Lead serves as an organization-level strategic and technical leader, driving the transformation of production operations towards a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model. This role requires not only a strong technical background but also experience driving organization-wide behavior change. The lead assesses current-state SRE operations, defines and socializes a target SRE model, establishes and runs governance structures such as an SRE council or CoE, and partners with teams and senior leadership to drive the required process, tooling, and behavioral change organization-wide.
Key responsibilities:
1. Need to work with Ally Reliability Engineering (ARE) team and understand the hub's operations, and the specific needs of individual LOBs. They will develop a comprehensive view of how the SRE model can be defined and implemented, assess the existing SRE models within each LOB, and identify any gaps that need to be addressed.
2. Supporting LOBs in implementing and maturing SRE practices. They will conduct thorough analyses, propose viable options, and contribute to the adoption of the new operating model.
3. Define and give approach for SRE engagement models based on tower maturity and skill readiness
4. Conduct maturity assessments across towers to identify gaps in SRE capabilities and recommend targeted interventions.
5. Map existing Production Operations functions and team members to SRE roles, identifying skill gaps and reskilling needs.
6. Develop and execute a tower-specific roadmap for SRE adoption, including coaching plans, tooling strategies, and governance models
7. Provide a roadmap to transit from traditional Production Operations to an SRE-driven model, defining clear boundaries for retained operations and SRE ownership.
8. Production operations transition plan to the SRE model. This includes identifying functions that can remain in production operations and those that should transition to SRE. They will also evaluate team members for potential movement to SRE, assess their skills, and make decisions on retention and replacement based on the needs of each individual tower.
Qualifications
15+ years in software engineering or production operations, with 5+ years in SRE leadership.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog ), and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible).
Proven experience in leading SRE transformations across enterprise-scale environments.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders., Project Code :R
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