Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

Posted 2 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in North Carolina, USA
Remote or Hybrid
250K-300K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics
The Role
Leads and builds Infinia’s Release Engineering, DevOps, SecDevOps, and SRE functions. Owns release pipelines, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, security tooling, reliability standards, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and scaling. Establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational practices while building globally distributed engineering teams. Partners with product, QA, security, and executive leadership to communicate roadmaps, risks, and technical tradeoffs.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

What You'll DoRelease 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

What You Bring
  • 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

Bonus Points
  • 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

Why DDN
  • 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

Skills Required

  • 12+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
  • 5+ years managing engineering teams
  • Deep experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Tekton
  • Infrastructure-as-code fluency with Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent
  • Production expertise with Kubernetes and Docker
  • Practical DevSecOps experience shipping security tooling
  • Experience designing SLOs and SLIs and establishing on-call frameworks
  • Experience with observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Strong communication skills for translating technical tradeoffs to executive and non-technical audiences
  • Experience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure software
  • Familiarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platforms
  • Experience scaling DevOps in high-growth, globally distributed environments
  • Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirements
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The Company
HQ: Chatsworth, CA
706 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions, the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations. DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale. Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world’s leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.

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