About the role As april's SRE / DevOps Lead, you'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure that powers our platform — a system trusted by leading wealth managers, banks, and consumer fintechs to handle some of the most sensitive financial data their users have. You'll lead a team of 2 SREs and partner closely with product engineering, security, and our compliance partners to make sure what we build runs the way our customers (and the IRS) expect. This is a hands-on lead role. You'll set the technical direction for our cloud platform, deployment pipelines, observability, and on-call practices — and you'll write the code, configs, and runbooks that get us there. You'll also own april's IT function (identity, endpoints, SaaS) at a tighter scope, keeping the company secure and productive as we grow. What you'll do Lead and grow a team of 2 SREs, setting direction across SRE, DevOps, and IT Own the architecture, performance, and reliability of april's GCP-based platform — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and scale Define and uphold our SLOs, infra budgets, on-call priorities, and incident response practice Build and operate our observability stack so engineers can find and fix problems before customers feel them Partner with engineering and security on the controls, evidence, and audits that keep us SOC 2, SOC1 and STIG compliant and IRS-authorized Plan and execute capacity, load testing, and game days for tax season — the highest-stakes window of our year Own corporate IT: identity (Okta), Google Workspace, endpoint management (Jamf / Kandji), and the SaaS stack used across the company Set the standard for how we ship: fast, safe, observable, and reversible What you'll bring 7+ years of SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering experience, including 1y+ leading or managing engineers Deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on GCP — Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform at real scale, not just consumed off-the-shelf Stro
