Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

We’re looking for a hands‑on engineering leader to build and own the Release Engineering, Sec Dev Ops , 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.

• 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

• Architect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and developer tool chains for on‑prem and cloud

• Embed security into the SDLC — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management

• Champion automation‑first Dev Ops practices from commit to production delivery

• 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

• 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

• 12+ years in Dev Ops, Release Engineering, or SRE — with 5+ years managing engineering teams

• Deep experience with CI/CD platforms (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Tekton, or similar)

• Infrastructure-as-code fluency:
  Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent

• Container orchestration expertise:
  Kubernetes and Docker in production

• Practical Dev Sec Ops  background — you’ve shipped security tooling, not just talked about it

• SRE chops: SLO/SLI design, on‑call frameworks, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)

• Strong communicator — you can translate complex technical tradeoffs for exec and non‑technical audiences

• Experience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure software

• Familiarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platforms

• Background scaling Dev Ops in high‑growth, globally distributed environments

• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirements

• Work on infrastructure that underpins some of the world’s most demanding AI and research workloads

• Greenfield opportunity to shape Release Engineering, Dev Ops, 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