Lead, Site Reliability Engineer

Lead, Site Reliability Engineer Royal Caribbean Group - 4.2 Miramar, FL Job Details Full-time 6 hours ago Qualifications Bachelor's degree Full Job Description Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package and excellent career development opportunities each offering unique ways to explore the world We are proud to be the vacation-industry leader with global brands — including Royal Caribbean International Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises — the most innovative fleet and private destinations and the best people Together we are dedicated to turning the vacation of a lifetime into a lifetime of vacations for our guests The Royal Caribbean Group's Information Technology Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Lead Site Reliability Engineer reporting to the Senior Manager Site Reliability The position is onsite and based in Miramar Florida The position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship Position Summary The Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) provides technical and strategic leadership for Royal Caribbean Group's DevOps and platform engineering ecosystem This role defines standards guides platform architecture and drives enterprise-wide initiatives across CI/CD Kubernetes GitOps observability security and AI-enabled automation to support reliable scalable software delivery The engineer will lead platform design and evolution drive intelligent automation and ensure robust integration of DevOps tooling with business processes fostering operational excellence and innovation Essential Duties and Responsibilities Owns SRE and DevOps strategy across AWS and Azure architecting cloud patterns for high availability disaster recovery and cost optimization Leads Kubernetes/Helm platform design and evolution (EKS AKS) supporting production workloads Drives AI-assisted SRE capabilities by identifying opportunities for intelligent automation remediation and operational insights across CI/CD and platform operations Owns the GitHub Actions platform designing reusable workflows and enforcing fully automated end-to-end pipelines Mandates Snyk and SonarQube in all pipelines enforcing security gates quality thresholds and exemption workflows Integrates Terraform IaC execution directly within CI/CD ensuring infrastructure changes flow through automated controls Owns Backstage lifecycle including catalog scaffolder templates plugin integrations and adoption governance Builds Software Templates that pre-wire CI/CD Terraform modules and security tooling for new services from day one Owns pipeline-to-ServiceNow integration automating change/release records and gating deployments against approved change windows Leads mentors and grows a team of SRE and DevOps engineers owning technical escalation and platform SLAs/SLOs Drives engineering culture through blameless post-mortems runbooks documentation and operational excellence Qualifications Knowledge and Skills Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field required; Master's degree preferred 7+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering with at least 2+ years in a technical lead or staff-level role Deep expertise in AWS (EKS EC2 IAM Lambda CloudWatch) and Azure (AKS Entra ID Azure Monitor) Expert in Terraform (modules remote state pipeline-automated execution GitOps workflows) Advanced proficiency with GitHub Actions (multi-job workflows reusable actions OIDC secrets management) Production Kubernetes experience (cluster lifecycle Helm authoring RBAC network policies) Hands-on experience with Backstage (catalog config scaffolder templates plugin integration governance) Demonstrated Snyk and SonarQube pipeline integration with enforced security and quality gates Experience integrating DevOps tooling with ServiceNow change release or Digital Release Proven track record reducing deployment lead time MTTR or improving platform reliability Hospitality travel or high-volume consumer tech experience AWS Solutions Architect Professional;

CKA/CKAD

certifications a strong plus Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD Flux) and progressive delivery (canary blue/green) Backstage plugin development (TypeScript/React)

PCI-DSS SOC

2 or travel industry compliance background

Source Control:

Git /

GitHub CI/CD:

GitHub Actions IaC:

Terraform Ansible Containers:

Kubernetes / Helm (EKS AKS)

Cloud:

AWS and Azure Dev Portal:

Backstage Security:

Snyk SonarQube Release:

ServiceNow Digital Release Effective mentor and collaborator able to build capability and drive adoption Strong interpersonal skills to communicate with all levels of management Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team

Agency and Third-Party Submissions:

Please note this is a direct search by the Company and applications through agencies and other third parties will not be accepted nor will fees be paid for unsolicited resumes Any unsolicited resumes will be considered the Company's property We know there's a lot to consider As you go through the application process our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance and more relevant details to answer any additional questions Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group We'll hope to see you onboard soon! It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color religion sex age national origin disability sexual orientation sexuality gender identity or expression marital status or any other characteristic protected by law Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment

Nearest Major Market:

Miami