Director of SRE leading global infrastructure and reliability teams for Blackpoint Cyber's cyber defense services. Focusing on cost efficiency, automation, and team leadership.
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
Monitor and optimize cloud spending, ensuring cost-effective resource utilization without compromising reliability
Manage and mentor a global team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure specialists
Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, security hardening, and disaster recovery readiness
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
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