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Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)
Capital One Services LLC · 🇺🇸 Riverwoods, IL
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The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 838 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 253 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting says it won’t sponsorIts own wording says sponsorship is unavailable.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Capital One Services LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles145 certified filings for “Application Engineer” (Software Developers) in IL: $108k–$153k, median $149k. Most were filed at wage level IV (72%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 838 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 253 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Site Reliability Engineer 4 (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering) Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive , and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Site Reliability Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One. The Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) Technology division is responsible for enabling and evolving Capital One’s foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience and availability. What You’ll Do: • Drive architectural vision for resilient, large-scale production systems • Spearhead strategic automation to eliminate systemic toil and elevate platform efficiency • Lead crisis management, deep-dive RCA, and define system-wide outage prevention strategies • Define and govern the secure, multi-cloud IaC strategy and maturity roadmap • Establish organization-wide SLOs, driving accountability for reliability and error budget compliance • Serve as the primary technical mentor, scaling SRE talent and culture across engineering teams • Own and implement proactive capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and FinOps strategy for core infrastructure Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering) • At least 8 years of experience leading SRE or DevOps initiatives and defining technical roadmaps • At least 8 years of experience in architecting, optimizing, and governing enterprise-scale solutions on a major cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP) Preferred Qualifications: • Master’s Degree • 4+ years of experience defining and driving IaC/CI/CD strategies and best practices across the organization • Experience working with 2 or more high-performance languages for building core platform tools and services • Expert in managing and optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless) • Proven success leading and integrating SRE principles within mature Agile/Scrum development environments • Deep experience designing and implementing holistic observability and advanced, metrics-driven SLO frameworks • Expertise in implementing comprehensive security and compliance governance (Zero Trust, Secrets Management) in cloud environments • Demonstrated significant contribution to the open-source community or strategic internal platform innovation • Proven track record of designing, scaling, and operating critical production platforms with measurable reliability and efficiency gains • Experience leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI/Headless AI for advanced Operations automation • Exceptional technical and strategic communication skills to drive architectural consensus across organizations At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer ). The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount C