Director, Engineering - Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE
- Location
- Remote (North Carolina)
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Listed
- 22 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- SLO/SLI design
Also useful
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- OpenTelemetry
- Ansible
- Pulumi
About the role
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
From DDN's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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