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Senior Site Reliability Engineering Lead

at McKinsey & Company

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipAWS/GCP/Azure DevOps

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City: Prague
Country: Czech Republic

Lead and empower the SRE Enablement Team to embed reliability, security, and scalability into McKinsey's products. Develop and drive adoption of SRE components across the firm, strengthening platforms and enabling product teams to deliver with confidence while reducing risk. Set and refine standards to promote consistency, minimize technical debt, and enable cross-functional collaboration through inner sourcing. This role emphasizes growth through continuous learning, mentorship, and opportunities to broaden expertise in a high-performance environment.

Technology & Digital

Senior Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Job ID: 101019

Prague

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Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

In the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Enablement Team, you’ll play a key role in developing, driving adoption, and supporting the components that power SRE work across the firm. Our mission is simple but powerful: we embed reliability, security, and scalability into products throughout the organization.

We achieve this by strengthening both platforms and teams, enhancing tools and improving practices, so that SREs and product teams can deliver with confidence. We focus on reducing risk without compromising speed, building capabilities that prevent outages while keeping development momentum high. We also set and refine standards that promote consistency and help teams avoid technical debt, ensuring our solutions stand the test of time.

Innovation is part of our DNA, but we pursue it responsibly, adopting new technologies in ways that the broader community can meaningfully absorb and benefit from. Just as importantly, we foster collaboration by leading critical initiatives and enabling contributions from across the ecosystem through inner sourcing.

In essence, we don’t just build—we enable. Our work amplifies the impact of every team we support, cultivating a culture of reliability, shared ownership, and continuous improvement.

Your Growth

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your qualifications and skills

5+ years of experience in relevant positions exercising stakeholder communication, conflict management, and influence without authority
Proficiency in mentoring colleagues and acting as a role model for cross-functional collaboration
Hands-on experience in the design and implementation of common security frameworks and standards, including SOC 2, GDPR, ISO27000
Understand and challenge architectural decisions across all domains, including Cloud, Networking, Security, Product Development, and Tooling
Practical experience with public cloud environments, specifically AWS and either Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and their cloud native services
Independently gather and analyze user data to drive informed product decisions, like telemetry and customer feedback. Balance feature development with non-functional requirements such as velocity, reliability, security, and compliance
Pragmatic experience with ITIL and able to analyze and (re)design processes for operational excellence
Drive product strategy and application of agile methodology to manage roadmaps, releases, and product backlogs
Ensure DevSecOps practices are leveraged to enable faster and more reliable iteration
Define SLOs/SLIs in collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders and understand their challenges to build reliability-focused enablement features

Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.

Our unwavering commitment to integrity drives everything we do, guiding us to always act in the best interests of our clients, our people, and the communities we serve.

Industries

High Tech

Capabilities

Technology

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FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Your Impact

In essence, we don’t just build—we enable. Our work amplifies the impact of every team we support, cultivating a culture of reliability, shared ownership, and continuous improvement.

Your Growth

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

When you join us, you will have:

Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.

A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.

Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your qualifications and skills

5+ years of experience in relevant positions exercising stakeholder communication, conflict management, and influence without authority
Proficiency in mentoring colleagues and acting as a role model for cross-functional collaboration
Hands-on experience in the design and implementation of common security frameworks and standards, including SOC 2, GDPR, ISO27000
Understand and challenge architectural decisions across all domains, including Cloud, Networking, Security, Product Development, and Tooling
Practical experience with public cloud environments, specifically AWS and either Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and their cloud native services
Independently gather and analyze user data to drive informed product decisions, like telemetry and customer feedback. Balance feature development with non-functional requirements such as velocity, reliability, security, and compliance
Pragmatic experience with ITIL and able to analyze and (re)design processes for operational excellence
Drive product strategy and application of agile methodology to manage roadmaps, releases, and product backlogs
Ensure DevSecOps practices are leveraged to enable faster and more reliable iteration
Define SLOs/SLIs in collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders and understand their challenges to build reliability-focused enablement features