Site Reliability Engineer Lead, Plant Floor Systems
Job Overview
The PFS SRE Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Manufacturing Plant Systems (MES, LMIS) across production environments. This role combines leadership, technical expertise, and cross-functional collaboration to drive operational excellence and system resilience.
You Will:
- Lead the team of MES‑focused SREs, automation specialists, and monitoring analysts.
- Mentor team members and foster a culture of continuous improvement and blameless postmortems.
- Oversee the implementation of observability tools and dashboards for systems performance and health monitoring.
- Lead incident response efforts and ensure timely resolution of MES- and LMIS‑related issues.
- Drive automation of deployments, health checks, and recovery processes.
- Collaborate with Development and Project teams to integrate MES into CI/CD pipelines.
- Work closely with MES and Ignition Developers, PFS Operations, and IT Infrastructure teams.
- Act as the primary point of contact for plant systems reliability concerns.
- Analyze system performance trends and forecast future capacity needs.
- Recommend infrastructure improvements to support MES scalability.
- Ensure MES systems adhere to cybersecurity and regulatory standards.
- Support audits and documentation for compliance initiatives.
You Bring:
- 10+ years in IT operations, SRE, or MES support roles with an engineering degree in IT, Electronics, or Computer Science.
- Strong knowledge of MES platforms — Rockwell FTPC.
- Strong knowledge of PLCs — Rockwell and Siemens.
- Experience with monitoring tools (Elastic APM, Grafana, Dynatrace), automation (Ansible, Python), and CI/CD.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and incident management skills.
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Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)
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