Site Reliability Engineering Manager
About Lucid
At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.
We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility.
Description
The Cloud team at Lucid Motors is currently seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager for leading the reliability, scalability, and
operational excellence of Lucid Motors’ cloud infrastructure and production services. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people
management, ensuring systems are highly available while developing and empowering a team of SRE engineers.
Responsibilities
• SRE Leadership & Reliability Ownership
o Own the availability, performance, and reliability of cloud services deployed and operated in KSA.
o Define, implement, and track SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
o Lead the architecture and governance of highly available and disaster-resilient systems, ensuring DR strategies are tested and
maintained.
o Drive capacity planning, auto-scaling, and performance tuning across Kubernetes-based platforms.
o Own monitoring, observability, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and logging platforms.
o Lead incident response, impact assessment, and root-cause analysis for complex production issues.
• Team Management, Mentorship & Growth
o Manage a team of SRE engineers, providing technical direction, career coaching, and performance feedback.
o Review and approve infrastructure code, deployment configurations, automation scripts, and SRE tooling.
o Foster a culture of ownership, learning, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.
o Lead hiring, onboarding, and skill development initiatives for the SRE function.
o Ensure fair, sustainable, and well-documented on-call rotations.
• Cloud Platforms & Automation
o Oversee production environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS.
o Govern Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and configuration management tools.
o Lead CI/CD strategy and implementation using ArgoCD, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and GitLab.
o Ensure secure and reliable deployment of microservices and data pipelines on Kubernetes using Helm.
• Platform Services & Data Systems
o Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Security, and Architecture teams.
o Oversee the reliability and scaling of platform services such as Kafka, Spark, Trino, Airflow, MQTT, and microservices ecosystems.
o Ensure stable operations of NoSQL and RDBMS systems including ElasticSearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
o Support distributed data processing and messaging systems, addressing performance and scalability challenges.
Requirements and Skills
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
- 2–4 years of experience managing or leading SRE/DevOps engineers.
- Strong hands-on experience with OCI and AWS cloud platforms.
- Solid expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash/Shell, or similar languages.
- Strong Experience with incident management, observability, and performance optimization.
- Fluent in English, with experience collaborating across regions and time zones.
- Experience scaling SRE practices across multiple teams or services.
- Familiarity with compliance, security, and regulated cloud environments.
Compensation & Benefits: Lucid offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; and a 401(k) retirement plan. Eligible employees may also participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual cash incentive program. Incentive and equity awards, if applicable, are determined based on individual performance, role scope, market considerations, and overall company results, in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.
Equal Opportunity: At Lucid, we believe diversity strengthens everything we build. Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive workplace for all. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal laws and regulations.
Accessibility: Lucid Motors is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need any accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at TA-Operations@lucidmotors.com.
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