Director of SRE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, implementation, and management of a scalable, dependable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure).

• Establish Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, encompassing monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and performance optimization.

• Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure prompt detection and resolution of reliability challenges.

• Advocate for automation-first methodologies, minimizing manual processes through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.

• Guide a team of SREs, embodying Blackpoint Cyber's management principles of Coach, Model, Care, to define critical business outcomes, formulate action plans, and assist the team in achieving their goals.

• Maintain active contributions in an SRE capacity.

• Design, implement, and maintain essential infrastructure, including automated deployment for attack infrastructure, secure identity and productivity environments, and safe data storage solutions.

• Develop and implement security hygiene and monitoring policies that comply with Blackpoint Cyber's security standards.

• Monitor and enhance cloud expenditures, ensuring that resource utilization remains cost-effective without compromising reliability.

• Manage and guide a worldwide team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure experts.

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure adherence to compliance, bolster security measures, and prepare for disaster recovery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

• More than 5 years of experience in personnel management, leading an SRE team.

• Extensive knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on cost management and scaling strategies.

• Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).

• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.

• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).

• Demonstrated ability to optimize cloud costs (COGS) while upholding reliability and performance standards.

• Strong leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving abilities.

• Familiarity with SLA/SLO/SLIs will be advantageous.

• A general understanding of the current AI tooling landscape and its application in increasing velocity and enhancing stability within SRE.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

• Dental insurance

• Life insurance

• 401k plan

• Discretionary Time Off