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About the Role
You will build and lead the Site Reliability Engineering function while remaining hands-on with critical infrastructure. You will define reliability practices, lead incident response, establish observability and automation, manage capacity and costs, and guide storage modernization across cloud, on-premises, colocation, and customer-facing services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or production engineering.
- 5+ years of experience leading SRE or infrastructure engineering teams.
- Experience building or significantly rebuilding an SRE or infrastructure function.
- Linux systems expertise, including bare-metal operations, enterprise shared storage, and hybrid-cloud storage integration.
- Experience operating colocation and on-premises hardware at scale.
- Production-scale Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and Ansible.
- Kubernetes cluster operations experience.
- Observability stack experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or equivalent.
- Python or Go scripting experience for production services and infrastructure automation.
- Executive communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the SRE function and hire, develop, and retain SRE engineers.
- Direct the Data Center and Lab Technician team and set operational priorities and standards.
- Own 24×7 reliability across colocation, on-premises clusters, cloud environments, and customer-facing platform services.
- Define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, and incident and root-cause-analysis processes.
- Own the observability stack and design metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and SLO visibility.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code automation and build self-healing infrastructure.
- Own FinOps and capacity planning across cloud, colocation, and on-premises infrastructure.
- Lead the migration to an enterprise-grade shared storage platform, including architecture, vendor selection, and disaster-recovery design.
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Incentive opportunities