Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
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Profile Summary:
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a technical expert and strategic leader responsible for the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence of enterprise platforms and services. This role drives automation, observability, and resiliency initiatives across the organization, ensuring systems are secure, highly available, and aligned with business objectives.
Profile Description:
Lead the reliability, scalability, and operational readiness of enterprise platforms and critical systems.
Drive SRE best practices, including automation, monitoring, incident management, and capacity planning.
Act as a key technical leader for platform resiliency, availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
Mentor engineers and promote a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Solve complex challenges involving distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, production operations, and large-scale platforms.
Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, automation, observability, and cloud-native technologies.
Influence enterprise technology strategy and represent SRE priorities in cross-functional and leadership discussions.
Knowledge & Experience:
10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related disciplines.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and observability tools.
Strong experience managing reliability, availability, scalability, and performance for business-critical systems.
Track record of leading complex technical initiatives with enterprise-wide impact.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving operational excellence across teams.
Strong communication, collaboration, and strategic problem-solving skills.
Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$149,000-$190,000
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Learn more about Voya benefits (download PDF)
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Learn more about Critical Skills
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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