Director, SRE - Enterprise Reliability
MetLife · Cary, NC
$150,000–$210,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Cary, NC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A team lead role within a Site Reliability Engineering function at an enterprise scale, responsible for setting and enforcing reliability standards, overseeing production readiness, and managing both a central SRE team and embedded SREs across application portfolios. Day-to-day work involves driving incident reviews, reducing manual operational toil through automation, improving observability and alerting, and leading adoption of AI-driven operations tools. Suits an experienced SRE or reliability engineering leader comfortable influencing cross-functional teams in large, complex environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · National · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (5)
This role is titled 'SRE Team Lead' with no explicit seniority level in the title; the title states no level accordingly.
The role has team-lead responsibilities (governing forward-deployed SREs, leading the central SRE team) but the JD does not describe formal people-management duties such as hiring, performance reviews, or budget ownership — it reads as a senior technical lead rather than a people manager, so 15-1252 is preferred over 11-3021. 15-1244 is the runner-up given the strong operational/production-support framing, but the emphasis on automation, engineering fixes, and self-healing systems tips the balance toward software development.
Observability (logs, metrics, traces), distributed systems, and SLO/SLI design are explicitly called out under Required Qualifications with firm language.
Kubernetes, CI/CD, AIOps platforms, ServiceNow, and cloud experience all appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
'Cloud' is listed as a preferred skill with no specific provider named; AWS, Azure, and GCP are listed as common substitutes.
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