Site Reliability Engineering Manager

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

Responsibilities

• SRE Leadership & Reliability Ownership

o Own the availability, performance, and reliability of cloud services deployed and operated in KSA.
o Define, implement, and track SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
o Lead the architecture and governance of highly available and disaster-resilient systems, ensuring DR strategies are tested and
maintained.
o Drive capacity planning, auto-scaling, and performance tuning across Kubernetes-based platforms.
o Own monitoring, observability, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and logging platforms.
o Lead incident response, impact assessment, and root-cause analysis for complex production issues.

• Team Management, Mentorship & Growth

o Manage a team of SRE engineers, providing technical direction, career coaching, and performance feedback.
o Review and approve infrastructure code, deployment configurations, automation scripts, and SRE tooling.
o Foster a culture of ownership, learning, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.
o Lead hiring, onboarding, and skill development initiatives for the SRE function.
o Ensure fair, sustainable, and well-documented on-call rotations.

• Cloud Platforms & Automation

o Oversee production environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS.
o Govern Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and configuration management tools.
o Lead CI/CD strategy and implementation using ArgoCD, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and GitLab.
o Ensure secure and reliable deployment of microservices and data pipelines on Kubernetes using Helm.

• Platform Services & Data Systems

o Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Security, and Architecture teams.
o Oversee the reliability and scaling of platform services such as Kafka, Spark, Trino, Airflow, MQTT, and microservices ecosystems.
o Ensure stable operations of NoSQL and RDBMS systems including ElasticSearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
o Support distributed data processing and messaging systems, addressing performance and scalability challenges.

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