DataDirect Networks
Posted 3w ago

Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

DataDirect Networks
Raleigh or North Carolina
$250k-$300k/yrHybridFull Time
Responsibilities
  • building infrastructure
  • driving automation
  • mentoring teams
Requirements
  • 12+ years in DevOps/Release Engineering/SRE with 5+ years managing engineering teams
  • Deep CI/CD, IaC
  • Kubernetes/Docker
  • DevSecOps
  • SLO/SRE experience and strong communication skills
Technical tools mentioned
GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CITektonTerraformAnsiblePulumiKubernetesDockerPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetrySASTDAST

Job description

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

About DataDirect Networks

High-performance storage and data management for AI and HPC.

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