Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Local Development Centre)

Leidos is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to support the Local Development Centre (LDC) in Singapore.  This role provides technical leadership for system reliability, observability, performance engineering, operational readiness, and service management while working closely with customer engineers in a co-development and capability-building environment.

The successful candidate will establish reliability engineering practices, drive automation and operational excellence initiatives, improve system performance and availability, and contribute to long-term engineering capability development through mentoring, knowledge transfer, and hands-on collaboration.

Leidos is a global technology company delivering innovative solutions across aviation, transportation, defense, government, and critical infrastructure domains. In Singapore, Leidos partners with customers, industry, and research organizations to solve complex operational challenges through advanced engineering and digital transformation.

Joining us will allow you to:

• Lead reliability and operational excellence initiatives for complex technology platforms.
• Influence monitoring, observability, automation, and service management practices.
• Mentor engineers and develop long-term customer capability.
• Work closely with customers in a collaborative co-development environment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Singapore and the United States.

Site Reliability Engineering Lead Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering, monitoring, observability, and operational support initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to site reliability engineers within the LDC.
• Establish reliability standards, operational processes, service level objectives (SLOs), and engineering best practices.
• Drive co-development activities with customer engineers, providing guidance, coaching, and technical oversight.
• Collaborate with software, infrastructure, DevSecOps, systems integration, cybersecurity, and test teams to improve system reliability and performance.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement activities.
• Lead performance analysis, capacity planning, availability management, and operational readiness assessments.
• Support development of automation solutions to improve monitoring, reliability, recovery, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical planning, risk assessments, and delivery activities.
• Support knowledge-transfer activities, technical training, workshops, and on-the-job training programs.
• Ensure operational environments meet reliability, availability, performance, and maintainability requirements.
• Champion automation, observability, and operational excellence practices across the engineering organization.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, operations, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading operational or reliability engineering teams on complex technology programs.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, performance management, incident response, and service management practices.
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient technology platforms.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting knowledge transfer, workforce development, training, technical capability development.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in customer-facing and cross-functional environments.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience leading co-development teams involving customers, partners, or contractor personnel.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and operational analytics platforms.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve operational efficiency, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity.
• Experience using Agile planning and collaboration platforms such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, Confluence, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) or other Agile-related certifications are desirable.
• Experience working in regulated, mission-critical, safety-critical, or highly available operational environments.
• Aviation, transportation, defense, government, or critical infrastructure domain experience is desirable.
• Proficiency in English and one or more regional languages is desirable.
• Candidates with existing authorization to work in Singapore.

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