Director of SRE
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Director of SRE at Blackpoint Cyber, managing cloud infrastructure and SRE best practices. Collaborating across teams to ensure reliability and cost optimization in cybersecurity services.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure)
- Establish SRE best practices, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring quick detection and resolution of reliability issues
- Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual intervention through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines
- Lead a team of SREs, applying Blackpoint Cyber's management values of Coach, Model, Care, in defining business-critical outcomes, creating action plans, and supporting the team in achieving them
- Continue hands-on contributions in an SRE role
- Design, implement, and support key infrastructure, including automated attack infrastructure deployment, isolated identity and productivity environments, and secure data storage
- Establish and apply security hygiene and monitoring policies to meet Blackpoint Cyber security requirements
- R&D with AI tooling and other SRE tools such as Grafana IRN, Loki, and Alloy
- Monitor and optimize cloud spending, ensuring cost-effective resource utilization without compromising reliability
- Define and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., right-sizing instances, leveraging spot instances, optimizing storage, etc.)
- Work closely with finance and procurement teams to forecast infrastructure costs and align expenses with business objectives
- Manage and mentor a global team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure specialists
- Partner with engineering teams to design reliable and scalable architectures, embedding reliability into development workflows
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, security hardening, and disaster recovery readiness
- Drive post-incident reviews, ensuring continuous improvement in system resilience
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- 5+ years of experience in people management, leading SRE team
- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with expertise in cost management and scaling strategies
- Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and container orchestration
- Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk)
- Proven ability to optimize cloud costs (COGS) while maintaining reliability and performance
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with SLA/SLO/SLIs will be valuable
- A general understanding of the modern AI tooling landscape and how SRE can use that to increase velocity and improve stability
Benefits:
- Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans
- Competitive 401k plan
- Discretionary Time Off
- Other minor perks
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