Team Lead, SRE

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Team Lead – Site Reliability Engineering, Brampton, ON
Are you an experienced SRE with a passion for both technical excellence and team leadership? As the Team Lead - SRE, you will be responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure and services - while also leading and growing a team of talented SREs.

In this role, you’ll balance hands‑on engineering work with people management responsibilities. You’ll guide technical decisions, lead incident response and postmortems, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. Your leadership will be critical in shaping our reliability practices, scaling infrastructure, and ensuring your team is set up for success.

What You’ll Do:

Lead Reliability Engineering Initiatives – Oversee the health and performance of production systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across critical services.

Manage & Grow the SRE Team – Mentor, support, and manage a team of SREs. Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews while fostering a culture of learning and accountability.

Drive Incident Response & Resolution – Lead incident management processes, guide root cause analysis, and implement long‑term fixes to improve system resilience.

Scale Automation & Tooling – Architect and promote automation strategies to reduce manual work and increase operational efficiency across environments.

Guide Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Strategy – Ensure best practices in infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

Evolve CI/CD & Deployment Practices – Oversee and enhance build and release pipelines for seamless, secure, and reliable deployments.

Cross‑Team Collaboration – Work closely with engineering, product, security, and operations to align reliability goals with business priorities.

What You Bring:

Proven experience as a senior or lead SRE in complex, production‑grade environments

Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience leading technical teams

Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes environments at a large scale, particularly for distributed or edge computing use cases.

Familiarity with enterprise application environments, including Java‑based systems.

Experience managing and optimizing relational databases such as DB2, SQL Server, and Postgres.

Deep understanding of reliability engineering principles, SLAs/SLOs, and system design

Expertise in scripting (Python, Bash, or Go) and automation practices

Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible)

Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Ability to drive strategic decisions, manage priorities, and build cross‑functional relationships

What Loblaw Offers You
We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.

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