Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in North Carolina
Site Reliability Engineer jobs in North Carolina are in strong and consistent demand, concentrated in cloud infrastructure, financial technology, and enterprise software sectors, with openings at every level from junior SRE to staff and principal engineer. The heaviest hiring activity is in the Research Triangle area, Charlotte, and the greater Raleigh metro, where employers like Red Hat, Lenovo, and Bank of America maintain large engineering operations. The most sought-after specialties in the state are Kubernetes orchestration, observability and monitoring platforms, and infrastructure-as-code with tools like Terraform and Ansible. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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
#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.
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 North Carolina Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in site reliability engineer jobs across North Carolina.
- Proficiency with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker in production environments
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Ability to write automation scripts and tooling in Python, Go, or Bash
- Experience implementing observability stacks using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design and configuration management using Terraform or Ansible
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical discipline
Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a site reliability engineer in North Carolina?
Site reliability engineering has no state-issued license in North Carolina, so the path runs through education and demonstrated technical skills. Most employers in the Research Triangle and Charlotte expect a bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering, though candidates from boot camps or self-taught backgrounds are considered when they can show hands-on infrastructure and automation work. Industry certifications such as the Certified Kubernetes Administrator or AWS Solutions Architect carry real weight with North Carolina hiring managers across tech, fintech, and healthcare IT.
Which companies hire site reliability engineers in North Carolina?
Employers hiring site reliability engineers in North Carolina right now include Google, DDN, and Cisco, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. North Carolina's strong concentration of enterprise software, financial services, and cloud-native companies means SRE demand is spread across both large legacy organizations and growth-stage technology firms anchored in the Research Triangle and Charlotte metro.
Which North Carolina cities have the most site reliability engineer jobs?
Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham account for the most site reliability engineer openings in North Carolina. The Research Triangle anchors the largest share of postings due to the density of technology companies, university-affiliated research institutions, and major corporate campuses in that corridor, while Charlotte's significant financial services and enterprise technology sector drives consistent demand in the western part of the state.
Are there remote site reliability engineer jobs in North Carolina?
Yes, and more than most fields. Site reliability engineering is a highly remote-compatible discipline because the work centers on managing cloud infrastructure and responding to incidents through software rather than requiring a physical presence. About 85% of site reliability engineer openings tied to North Carolina are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the role's nature. Incident response, on-call rotations, and deep infrastructure debugging are the functions most commonly performed fully remotely.
How can I get hired as a site reliability engineer in North Carolina with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a systems administration, DevOps, or software engineering role where you have already managed infrastructure or automated deployments. In North Carolina, large employers like Red Hat and mid-size fintech firms in Charlotte regularly hire associate or junior SRE candidates who demonstrate hands-on Kubernetes or cloud experience through personal projects or open-source contributions. Building a public portfolio on GitHub and earning the Certified Kubernetes Administrator credential before applying significantly improves your chances at the Research Triangle's competitive entry-level market.
Where can I find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in North Carolina?
You can find and apply to site reliability engineer jobs in North Carolina on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to the state. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and target location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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