Director, Engineering - Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

Data Direct Networks

$150K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in North Carolina, US
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE with 5+ years managing teams
  • Deep experience with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
  • Fluency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
  • Expertise in container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker
  • Practical DevSecOps experience with relevant security tooling
  • SRE experience in SLO/SLI design and observability stacks
  • Strong communication skills for conveying technical concepts to varied audiences

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end release pipeline including build systems and artifact management
  • Drive automation of build, test, and packaging workflows
  • Define release cadence and branching strategies with engineering leadership
  • Architect scalable CI/CD pipelines and developer toolchains
  • Embed security practices into the software development lifecycle
  • Define SLOs, SLIs, and lead incident response processes
  • Mentor and grow global teams across Release Engineering, DevOps, and SRE

Benefits

  • Work on infrastructure for demanding AI and research workloads
  • Greenfield opportunity to shape engineering disciplines from scratch
  • Collaborative culture valuing autonomy and continuous learning
  • Remote-first flexibility and supportive team environment
Full Job Description
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 Do
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


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

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