[Hiring] Director of SRE @Blackpoint Cyber

Role Description

As a Director of SRE, you will lead the global infrastructure, reliability, and cost optimization team supporting Blackpoint Cyber’s mission-critical services. You will be responsible for the SRE function, ensuring the scalability, availability, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure, while also supporting finops efforts to maintain cost efficiency. You will also help design the next generation of SRE at Blackpoint, helping innovate with cutting edge technologies and AI tooling to help maintain uptime and availability around the clock.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Reliability
  • Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
  • Establish SRE best practices, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring quick detection and resolution of reliability issues.
  • Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual intervention through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead a team of SREs, applying Blackpoint Cyber's management values of Coach, Model, Care, in defining business-critical outcomes, creating action plans, and supporting the team in achieving them.
  • Continue hands-on contributions in an SRE role.
  • Design, implement, and support key infrastructure, including automated attack infrastructure deployment, isolated identity and productivity environments, and secure data storage.
  • Establish and apply security hygiene and monitoring policies to meet Blackpoint Cyber security requirements.
  • R&D with AI tooling and other SRE tools such as Grafana IRN, Loki, and Alloy.
• COGS Optimization & Cost Efficiency
  • Monitor and optimize cloud spending, ensuring cost-effective resource utilization without compromising reliability.
  • Define and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., right-sizing instances, leveraging spot instances, optimizing storage, etc.).
  • Work closely with finance and procurement teams to forecast infrastructure costs and align expenses with business objectives.
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Manage and mentor a global team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure specialists.
  • Partner with engineering teams to design reliable and scalable architectures, embedding reliability into development workflows.
  • Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, security hardening, and disaster recovery readiness.
  • Drive post-incident reviews, ensuring continuous improvement in system resilience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• 5+ years of experience in people management, leading SRE team.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with expertise in cost management and scaling strategies.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Proven ability to optimize cloud costs (COGS) while maintaining reliability and performance.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with SLA/SLO/SLIs will be valuable.
• A general understanding of the modern AI tooling landscape and how SRE can use that to increase velocity and improve stability.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience working in a cybersecurity or high-security environment.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, etc.).
• Knowledge of serverless architectures and edge computing.
• Experience working with FinOps teams to manage cloud costs effectively.

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans.
• Robust 401k plan.
• Discretionary Time Off.
• Other minor perks.