SRE Director of Engineering

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Cyber Security
Network Security
Endpoint Protection
Strategic Leadership
Scalability
Team Management
Incident Management
Root Cause Analysis
Product Engineering
Software Development
Performance Tuning
Regulatory Compliance
Resource Planning
Management
Budget
Vendor Relationships
Resource Allocation
Reporting
Leadership
Oracle Linux
SAP BASIS
Law
MPI
Reliability Engineering
IaaS
Mentorship
Collaboration
Technical Direction
Operational Excellence
Innovation
Risk Management
Quoting

Job Details

  • Potential for major growth within a leadership position
  • Opportunity to be a decision maker within the organization.


About Our Client

This platform provides continuous, external assessments of an organization's cybersecurity posture by analyzing publicly available data across key risk factors like network security, application vulnerabilities, and endpoint protection. It generates security ratings that help organizations monitor third-party risk, maintain compliance, and identify areas for improvement in their defenses.

Job Description

Here are key responsibilities of the Director of Engineering for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):

  1. Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the SRE strategy to ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance across all services.
  2. Team Management: Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing SRE teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  3. Reliability Engineering: Oversee the development and implementation of reliability best practices, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.
  4. Incident Management: Establish robust incident response processes and lead postmortem efforts to drive root cause analysis and systemic improvements.
  5. Automation & Tooling: Promote automation to reduce toil, improve deployment processes, and enhance observability and monitoring capabilities.
  6. Collaboration: Partner with product, engineering, and security teams to integrate reliability into the software development lifecycle.
  7. Performance Optimization: Continuously analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement enhancements to improve efficiency.
  8. Compliance & Security: Ensure infrastructure and processes meet relevant security and compliance standards.
  9. Budgeting & Resource Planning: Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and resource allocation to support reliability goals.
  10. Executive Reporting: Communicate reliability metrics, risks, and strategic initiatives to senior leadership and stakeholders.


MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

A successful candidate for the Director of Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), is a seasoned technical leader with a strong background in building and operating large-scale, highly available systems. They combine deep expertise in reliability engineering, automation, and cloud infrastructure with a proven ability to lead and mentor teams. This individual excels at driving cross-functional collaboration, setting clear technical direction, and fostering a culture of operational excellence. They are data-driven, strategic thinkers who can balance innovation with risk management and communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders.

What's on Offer

A competitive base salary

Bonus

Equity options

Contact

Billy Kelty

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