Director, Site Reliability Engineering & Cloud Operations (SRE)
Hybrid · Austin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Director, Site Reliability Engineering & Cloud Operations leads global cloud infrastructure, SRE, and CloudOps for a large IoT ecosystem. Defines global cloud operations and SRE strategies to achieve high uptime, architects multi-cloud (Azure) infrastructure for low-latency IoT data processing, and drives automation with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD. Responsible for reliability and incident management including SLOs/SLIs/KPIs, disaster recovery, and security/compliance (SOC2, GDPR, NIST, zero-trust). Leads a global team of Cloud Engineers, SREs, and software professionals, partnering with product, software, security, finance, and leadership to align cloud investments with business priorities. Preferred experience includes AI/ML-driven automation, IoT security, serverless/edge computing, and cost optimization.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- 15+ years of experience in Cloud Operations, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with 8+ years in technical leadership roles
- 5+ years of experience managing large-scale, distributed IoT cloud environments supporting billions of data points per day
- 5+ years of deep professional experience in Azure cloud platforms including networking, storage, compute, and database services
- 5+ years of experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
- 5+ years of experience in large-scale systems design and architecture, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-native platforms
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, CDK, Pulumi for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and managing cloud-native architectures
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