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Description and Requirements
When you join MetLife’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments. In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.
The SRE function drives production stability and consistent reliability standards across applications and infrastructure. The team operates as a central capability with forward-deployed SREs embedded in production support organizations, partnering across Application, Infrastructure, and Vendor teams to improve observability, reduce risk, and enhance customer and employee experience.
As the Director, Site Reliability Engineering, you will be a hands-on technical leader who builds the foundation of the function. You will personally design and write the automation, monitoring, and engineering fixes that remove operational toil, and you will set the engineering standards and working patterns that SREs and application and infrastructure teams adopt. You will work directly alongside engineers across the organization, coaching through pairing, code review, and shared delivery, and you will lead the adoption of AI-driven operations. As the team grows, you will lead a hybrid model of central and embedded SREs while staying close to the technical work, so that production environments meet standards and continuously improve through automation and engineering-led practices.
- Build and deliver production automation, self-healing, and engineering fixes in code that eliminate manual work and reduce L1 workload
- Design and implement monitoring, observability, and SLO standards as code across applications and infrastructure, reducing alert noise, improving signal quality, and minimizing manual triage effort
- Lead incident response and reviews hands-on, perform root cause analysis, and ensure recurring issues translate into the engineering backlog and long-term fixes
- Establish and run production readiness reviews, identifying gaps and driving remediation with app, infra, and vendor teams
- Implement and drive adoption of AI SRE solutions for anomaly detection, event correlation, and faster root cause analysis
- Partner with application, infrastructure, and vendor engineers to improve system design, resilience, and operability, contributing code and configuration directly
- Coach and enable engineers through pairing, code review, and reusable patterns, raising SRE capability across the organization
- Lead the central SRE team and govern forward-deployed SREs across application portfolios as the team grows
- Track and report on reliability outcomes, including MTTR, incident reduction, and operational efficiency
- 8+ years in SRE, production support, or software/infrastructure engineering, with a hands-on track record of building production automation and monitoring
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and Bash/shell, with working knowledge of Java, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript sufficient to read application code, diagnose defects, and contribute fixes
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, configuration, and operational tasks
- Strong expertise in observability (logs, metrics, traces), distributed systems, and SLO/SLI design, including implementing monitoring and alerting as code
- Ability to work independently, drive cross-team initiatives, and influence engineering and operations practices
- Experience mentoring or technically guiding other engineers
- Strong problem-solving and incident leadership skills
- Experience leading SRE or reliability teams in complex, enterprise environments
- Experience automating ITSM workflows (e.g., ServiceNow), including event-to-incident integration and auto-remediation
- Experience driving enterprise SRE or monitoring transformations
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers
- Experience with open-source observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Exposure to AI SRE / AIOps platforms
- Strong focus on measurable outcomes and operational improvement
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Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
General Information
Description and Requirements
When you join MetLife’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments. In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.
The SRE function drives production stability and consistent reliability standards across applications and infrastructure. The team operates as a central capability with forward-deployed SREs embedded in production support organizations, partnering across Application, Infrastructure, and Vendor teams to improve observability, reduce risk, and enhance customer and employee experience.
As the Director, Site Reliability Engineering, you will be a hands-on technical leader who builds the foundation of the function. You will personally design and write the automation, monitoring, and engineering fixes that remove operational toil, and you will set the engineering standards and working patterns that SREs and application and infrastructure teams adopt. You will work directly alongside engineers across the organization, coaching through pairing, code review, and shared delivery, and you will lead the adoption of AI-driven operations. As the team grows, you will lead a hybrid model of central and embedded SREs while staying close to the technical work, so that production environments meet standards and continuously improve through automation and engineering-led practices.
- Build and deliver production automation, self-healing, and engineering fixes in code that eliminate manual work and reduce L1 workload
- Design and implement monitoring, observability, and SLO standards as code across applications and infrastructure, reducing alert noise, improving signal quality, and minimizing manual triage effort
- Lead incident response and reviews hands-on, perform root cause analysis, and ensure recurring issues translate into the engineering backlog and long-term fixes
- Establish and run production readiness reviews, identifying gaps and driving remediation with app, infra, and vendor teams
- Implement and drive adoption of AI SRE solutions for anomaly detection, event correlation, and faster root cause analysis
- Partner with application, infrastructure, and vendor engineers to improve system design, resilience, and operability, contributing code and configuration directly
- Coach and enable engineers through pairing, code review, and reusable patterns, raising SRE capability across the organization
- Lead the central SRE team and govern forward-deployed SREs across application portfolios as the team grows
- Track and report on reliability outcomes, including MTTR, incident reduction, and operational efficiency
- 8+ years in SRE, production support, or software/infrastructure engineering, with a hands-on track record of building production automation and monitoring
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and Bash/shell, with working knowledge of Java, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript sufficient to read application code, diagnose defects, and contribute fixes
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, configuration, and operational tasks
- Strong expertise in observability (logs, metrics, traces), distributed systems, and SLO/SLI design, including implementing monitoring and alerting as code
- Ability to work independently, drive cross-team initiatives, and influence engineering and operations practices
- Experience mentoring or technically guiding other engineers
- Strong problem-solving and incident leadership skills
- Experience leading SRE or reliability teams in complex, enterprise environments
- Experience automating ITSM workflows (e.g., ServiceNow), including event-to-incident integration and auto-remediation
- Experience driving enterprise SRE or monitoring transformations
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers
- Experience with open-source observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Exposure to AI SRE / AIOps platforms
- Strong focus on measurable outcomes and operational improvement
#LI-WRAPJOB
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in site engineering manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, civil, or industrial engineering
- 5 or more years of engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional engineering teams on-site
- Proficiency with CAD software, CMMS platforms, or ERP systems relevant to the site
- Working knowledge of OSHA regulations, environmental compliance, and site safety standards
- PE licensure or PMP certification preferred for capital project and regulatory oversight roles
Tips for Your Site Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify your capital project outcomes
Site engineering managers are hired to deliver results, so your resume needs concrete outcomes. Replace vague descriptions with numbers: budget managed, schedule variance reduced, or uptime improved. Hiring teams skip resumes that describe responsibilities instead of impact.
List your site-specific technical credentials
Certifications like PE licensure, PMP, or OSHA 30 carry real weight in site engineering manager postings. Put them in a dedicated credentials section near the top of your resume so screeners see them before reading your work history.
Target openings by site type and industry
A site engineering manager role at a semiconductor fab demands different expertise than one at a food processing plant. Filter by industry and site type when you search so you apply to roles where your environment-specific experience is a direct match.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists site engineering manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for a technical panel interview
Most site engineering manager interviews include a panel with operations, safety, and finance stakeholders. Practice explaining a past project failure, what corrective actions you led, and how you measured recovery. Each stakeholder will probe a different angle of the same story.
Negotiate relocation terms before accepting
Many site engineering manager roles require relocating to a specific facility. Before you accept, confirm whether relocation assistance covers temporary housing, closing costs, or both. Employers expect this conversation and rarely rescind offers because a candidate asks.
Site Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most site engineering managers?
The most active employers for site engineering managers right now are Google, Apple, and Olsson, and the most openings are in Texas, California, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially strong at companies running large-scale capital improvement programs or expanding production capacity.
How many site engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 57% of site engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most site engineering roles. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements include project engineering oversight, standards development, and regional engineering support functions that do not require daily on-site presence.
How do you become a site engineering manager?
Start with an engineering degree in a discipline relevant to your target industry, then build hands-on site experience as an individual contributor. Progress through lead or senior engineer roles where you manage projects and coordinate with operations and safety teams. Formal credentials like a PE license or PMP strengthen your profile when you apply for management-level openings.
Can you get hired as a site engineering manager with limited management experience?
Some employers will hire strong senior engineers into a first site engineering manager role, particularly at smaller facilities or during rapid expansion. Frame your resume around indirect leadership: project lead roles, mentoring junior engineers, or coordinating cross-functional shutdowns. Targeting smaller sites or contract-to-hire openings is a practical way to build direct management experience early in your career.
What does the site engineering manager interview process look like?
The process typically involves an initial screen with a recruiter or HR partner, followed by a technical interview with an engineering director or VP, and then a panel with operations, safety, and finance stakeholders. Expect scenario-based questions about managing contractor safety, budget overruns, and unplanned downtime. Some employers include a facility walkthrough where they ask you to identify hazards or improvement opportunities on the spot.
Where can I find and apply to site engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to site engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and site type, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience and location preferences.
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