Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering
About the Job
Our client is seeking a Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering to lead infrastructure automation and platform reliability initiatives within a highly scalable hybrid environment. This individual will be responsible for driving automation strategy, establishing Infrastructure as Code standards, overseeing platform reliability, and mentoring a team of engineers focused on building and maintaining modern infrastructure services. The role offers the opportunity to remain hands-on while influencing the long-term direction of infrastructure engineering across the organization.
What You'll Do:
- Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code standards to drive consistent, scalable, and secure deployments.
- Oversee configuration management, system provisioning, image lifecycle management, and infrastructure automation across Windows and Linux environments.
- Develop and enhance self-service platforms that improve engineering efficiency, deployment velocity, and operational stability.
- Own monitoring, observability, and reliability initiatives for internal infrastructure and automation platforms.
- Partner with infrastructure, security, networking, and engineering teams to improve operational workflows and platform capabilities.
- Drive the development of internal tooling and automation solutions using modern scripting and programming languages.
- Establish best practices around infrastructure lifecycle management, performance optimization, and platform scalability.
What We're Looking For:
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Deep expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices in enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and large-scale automation initiatives.
- Experience managing and automating VMware-based environments as well as public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or related platforms.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and modern software delivery practices.
- Ability to support and troubleshoot both Windows and Linux infrastructure environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience leading or managing engineering teams.
- Experience with identity and access management platforms.
- Exposure to enterprise storage, backup, disaster recovery, and large-scale infrastructure environments.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, infrastructure architecture, and systems performance optimization.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity participation
- Fully remote work environment
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company contribution
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Opportunity to help shape and scale a modern infrastructure automation function within a growing technology-driven organization.
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