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Senior Director, Site Reliability Engineering
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Role overview Lead a global site reliability engineering organization responsible for the availability, security, scalability, and operational health of a multi-tenant cloud platform. You’ll set the team’s strategy and operating practices, guide platform modernization, and work across engineering, product, security, and customer-facing groups to turn commitments into dependable services.
Responsibilities - Lead multiple SRE teams through managers and senior technical leaders, developing talent and maintaining operational readiness. - Set priorities, ownership, escalation paths, and coordination practices across regions. - Guide platform improvements, including container orchestration, regional deployment, data platforms, technical debt, and operational risk. - Improve software delivery through consistent CI/CD controls, automation, self-service, and infrastructure-as-code. - Establish and improve service objectives, observability, capacity and performance management, disaster recovery, incident response, and post-incident reviews. - Track reliability, customer impact, change outcomes, toil, delivery, security, cost, and follow-through; communicate risks and investment needs to senior leaders.
Requirements - 12+ years in SRE, DevOps, cloud operations, platform engineering, or a related engineering field; the listing calls for substantial management experience, though the detailed requirement is truncated. - Experience leading teams through managers or senior technical leaders. - Strong technical and operational judgment across a large, multi-region cloud platform. - Ability to coordinate with product, engineering, security, compliance, support, and customer success teams. - Experience improving production reliability, software delivery, and operational processes.
Nice to have - Experience with regulated-customer security and compliance, vulnerability remediation, hardened container images, access governance, and auditability. - Experience with follow-the-sun teams, FinOps, or AI-assisted engineering and operations.
Benefits and work setup The role leads a global organization. Listed benefits include paid time off and holidays, parental leave, healthcare options, retirement programs, education reimbursement, and commuter support in some locations. Compensation is listed as a $175,000–$250,000 base salary plus bonus for Colorado.