Team Lead, SRE

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Team Lead – Site Reliability Engineering, Brampton, ON

Are you an experienced SRE with a passion for both technical excellence and team leadership? As the Team Lead - SRE, you will be responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure and services - while also leading and growing a team of talented SREs.

In this role, you'll balance hands-on engineering work with people management responsibilities. You'll guide technical decisions, lead incident response and postmortems, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. Your leadership will be critical in shaping our reliability practices, scaling infrastructure, and ensuring your team is set up for success.

What You'll Do:

• Lead Reliability Engineering Initiatives – Oversee the health and performance of production systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across critical services.
• Manage & Grow the SRE Team – Mentor, support, and manage a team of SREs. Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews while fostering a culture of learning and accountability.
• Drive Incident Response & Resolution – Lead incident management processes, guide root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to improve system resilience.
• Scale Automation & Tooling – Architect and promote automation strategies to reduce manual work and increase operational efficiency across environments.
• Guide Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Strategy – Ensure best practices in infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Evolve CI/CD & Deployment Practices – Oversee and enhance build and release pipelines for seamless, secure, and reliable deployments.
• Cross-Team Collaboration – Work closely with engineering, product, security, and operations to align reliability goals with business priorities.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience as a senior or lead SRE in complex, production-grade environments
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience leading technical teams
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes environments at a large scale, particularly for distributed or edge computing use cases.
• Familiarity with enterprise application environments, including Java-based systems.
• Experience managing and optimizing relational databases such as DB2, SQL Server, and Postgres.
• Deep understanding of reliability engineering principles, SLAs/SLOs, and system design
• Expertise in scripting (Python, Bash, or Go) and automation practices
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Ability to drive strategic decisions, manage priorities, and build cross-functional relationships

What Loblaw Offers You

We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.

Here, you will find a great team to help you achieve your goals as you help us achieve ours Work in our fast-paced, exciting Technology environment, helping our stores, colleagues and customers every day.

Loblaw colleagues also enjoy:

• Work Perks Program
• On-site Gym, Basketball & Volleyball courts, Ice Rink, Groceries delivered to work via PC Express, Dry Cleaning services (1PCC Office)
• Tuition Reimbursement & Online Learning
• Pension & Benefits
• Paid Vacation

If you're up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today, and get the process started.

Loblaw recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation's evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. At Loblaw, we celebrate diversity and strive to build a culture of inclusion where differences are embraced, valued and supported. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to apply to our jobs. Accommodation in the recruitment, assessment, and hiring process is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.

We thank all candidates for their interest but please note, those candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the position will be contacted.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada's Top Employers, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers & Canada's Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:

Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.