Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE
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About the Position
Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE
Remote - North Carolina
We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader to build and own the Release Engineering, SecDevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) functions for Infinia. This is a foundational role: you'll define how our software is built, secured, released, and kept running at enterprise scale.
If you thrive at the intersection of infrastructure automation, operational excellence, and team building - and you want your work to directly shape the reliability and velocity of a market-leading storage platform - this is your role.
Responsibilities
Release Engineering
- Own the end-to-end release pipeline - build systems, artifact management, versioning, and release gating
- Drive automation of build, test, and packaging workflows to maximize developer velocity
- Define release cadence, branching strategies, and code freeze processes with engineering leadership
DevOps and SecDevOps
- Architect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and developer toolchains for on-prem and cloud
- Embed security into the SDLC - SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management
- Champion automation-first DevOps practices from commit to production delivery
Site Reliability Engineering
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; own incident response and post-mortem culture
- Drive observability - logging, metrics, distributed tracing - across the platform
- Influence reliability and operability early, at design and code-review stages
- Lead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling decisions
Leadership
- Build, mentor, and grow teams across all three disciplines in a global, distributed org
- Communicate roadmap and risks to senior leadership; partner cross-functionally with product, QA, and security
Requirements
- 12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE - with 5+ years managing engineering teams
- Deep experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton, or similar)
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent
- Container orchestration expertise: Kubernetes and Docker in production
- Practical DevSecOps background - you've shipped security tooling, not just talked about it
- SRE chops: SLO/SLI design, on-call frameworks, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Strong communicator - you can translate complex technical tradeoffs for exec and non-technical audiences
Nice to Have
- Experience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure software
- Familiarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platforms
- Background scaling DevOps in high-growth, globally distributed environments
- Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirements
We Offer
- Work on infrastructure that underpins some of the world's most demanding AI and research workloads
- Greenfield opportunity to shape Release Engineering, DevOps, and SRE from the ground up for Infinia
- Collaborative, engineering-first culture that values autonomy, technical depth, and continuous learning
- Competitive compensation, remote-first flexibility, and a team that genuinely enjoys solving hard problems
About the Company
At Infinia, we are committed to building the infrastructure that powers some of the most demanding AI and research workloads globally. Our engineering-first culture values autonomy, technical depth, and continuous learning. We offer a competitive compensation package, remote-first flexibility, and a team that genuinely enjoys solving hard problems.
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DataDirect Networks (DDN.com) is a world leader in massively-scalable storage platforms and solutions engineered for the Big Data and Cloud era. Our storage, processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high-data growth environments to achieve the highest levels of systems performance, scalability and efficiency.In solving today’s Big Data lifecycle management challenges at scale, DDN enables organizations to maximize the value of their information, everywhere. As the technology behind the world’s leading data-driven organizations, our customers include online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production houses and security and intelligence agencies.