Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Gen AI)

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Gen AI) | Hybrid in Orlando, FL

Optomi, in partnership with a world-renowned entertainment company, is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join the team building and scaling its enterprise Generative AI platform.

This is a highly visible technical leadership role responsible for designing, modernizing, and operating the cloud infrastructure that powers enterprise AI applications and conversational AI services. You'll help establish the long-term cloud architecture, reliability strategy, and engineering best practices supporting next-generation AI initiatives across the organization.

This position is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who enjoys architecting solutions while remaining deeply involved in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform engineering.

What the right candidate will enjoy:

• Helping lead the infrastructure behind an enterprise-scale Generative AI platform
• Building highly available AI infrastructure with a 99.99% uptime SLA
• Designing cloud architecture across GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Solving large-scale distributed systems and reliability challenges
• Influencing technical strategy and engineering best practices across the AI organization
• Mentoring talented SRE and Platform Engineers while remaining hands-on technically

Experience of the right candidate:

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
• Deep, production-level Kubernetes administration experience within enterprise environments
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform
• Experience designing and supporting multi-cloud environments, including GCP (preferred), AWS, and Azure
• Experience supporting enterprise AI/ML platforms or AI-powered applications
• Experience building, operating, or scaling Generative AI infrastructure
• Enterprise CI/CD experience using modern deployment platforms such as Harness, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Experience implementing deployment strategies including blue/green and canary deployments
• Strong scripting skills with Python and/or Bash
• Experience supporting production databases, messaging systems, and distributed applications
• Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability platforms
• Strong troubleshooting methodology with experience diagnosing complex production outages
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities of the right candidate:

• Lead the design, architecture, and operation of Disney's enterprise Generative AI platform infrastructure
• Build, manage, and optimize enterprise Kubernetes environments and Helm deployments
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Modernize cloud infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Harness and GitOps methodologies
• Implement deployment strategies including blue/green, rolling, and canary deployments
• Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Drive platform scalability, resiliency, security, and reliability while maintaining a 99.99% uptime SLA
• Support production databases, messaging platforms, and backend AI services
• Lead infrastructure capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost efficiency initiatives
• Establish SRE best practices and long-term cloud architecture standards
• Mentor engineers and promote an automation-first engineering culture
• Partner closely with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Capacity Planning teams to deliver reliable enterprise AI solutions