DDN
Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE
RemoteUnited States only
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- Engineering Management
- Experience
- Lead
- Employment
- Full-time
$250k–$300k/yr
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Hands-on engineering leader for Release Engineering, DevOps/SecDevOps, and SRE. Needs 12+ years in DevOps/Release Engineering/SRE, 5+ years managing engineering teams, and deep CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes/Docker, DevSecOps, and observability experience. Remote role in North Carolina.
Core skills
KubernetesCI/CDSRE
Required skills
GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI/TektonTerraform/Ansible/PulumiDockerSASTDASTPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry
Optional skills
SOC 2ISO 27001FedRAMP
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
What you'll do
- Build and own the Release Engineering, SecDevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering functions for Infinia.
- Define how software is built, secured, released, and kept running at enterprise scale.
- Own the end-to-end release pipeline, including 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 toolchains for on-prem and cloud.
- Embed security into the SDLC, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets management.
- Champion automation-first DevOps practices from commit to production delivery.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Own incident response and post-mortem culture.
- Drive observability, including logging, metrics, and 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 Release Engineering, DevOps/SecDevOps, and SRE in a global, distributed organization.
- Communicate roadmap and risks to senior leadership.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, QA, and security.
What they require
- 12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE, with 5+ years managing engineering teams.
- Deep experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton, or similar.
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency with Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent.
- Container orchestration expertise with Kubernetes and Docker in production.
- Practical DevSecOps background shipping security tooling.
- SRE experience with SLO/SLI design, on-call frameworks, and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Strong communication skills, including ability to translate complex technical tradeoffs for executive and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred: Experience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure software.
- Preferred: Familiarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platforms.
- Preferred: Background scaling DevOps in high-growth, globally distributed environments.
- Preferred: Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirements.
Benefits
- Offers equity.
- Offers bonus.
- Work on infrastructure that underpins 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.
- Team that enjoys solving hard problems.
DDN is positioned as NVIDIA’s storage and data intelligence partner for AI factories and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform.
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