Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

Data Direct Networks; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation plans

Paid holidays

Bonus programs

Tuition reimbursement

Employee referral program

Medical benefits

Paid leave programs

Awards and recognition

Job summary

Data Direct Networks in the United States is seeking a hands-on Director of Engineering to own Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE for Infinia. You will define how software is built, secured, released, and kept running at enterprise scale in a hybrid environment.

You will lead three disciplines, mentor teams, and partner with product, security, and QA to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure. The role demands 12+ years in DevOps/SRE and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE with 5+ years leading engineers.
• Deep experience with CI/CD platforms and automation.
• Infrastructure-as-code fluency and container orchestration expertise.
• Practical DevSecOps background with security tooling experience.
• Strong communication skills for exec and cross-functional audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end release pipeline, artifacts, versioning and gating.
• Architect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines for on-prem and cloud.
• Define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident post-mortem culture.
• Lead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling decisions.
• Mentor and grow teams across Release Engineering, DevOps, and SRE.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD platforms

IaC

Kubernetes & Docker

DevSecOps

SRE practices

Executive communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Tekton

Job description

We are on our way to being the first company to power 1 MILLION GPUs and want world-class talent to join our amazing team!

The world is moving faster than ever, and yet, it will never move this slowly again. We are at the forefront of an incredible technological revolution but, at its core, it is fueled by incredible people. People like you.

1,000 Global Employees

11k Happy Customers

16 International Offices

We’re Looking for the Best and Brightest

We are the world’s leading data intelligence platform that reliably accelerates massive datasets for actionable real-time insights. Join our team to help the best and brightest minds tackle the world’s biggest challenges in business, science, medicine, academia and government.

Do What Can’t be Done

For the past 20 years, our team has kept us at the forefront of storage technology and has provided the foundation for enabling researchers to push the limits of “what can be done.”
These innovations take research and discovery to the next level, enabling them to discover cures to disease, observe global warming patterns, model innovative automotive and aerospace designs, discover new sources of energy, make communities safer, and accelerate business results across a wide variety of industries.

DDN Helps Build Your Future, Too

At DDN, we understand our customers’ diverse needs. Whether you’re a data scientist, IT professional, executive, or researcher, our solutions empower you with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled support.

Highly Competitive Vacation Plans

Paid Holidays

Bonus Programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

Paid Leave Programs

Anniversary and Recognition Awards

Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

Location

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

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

Compensation Range: $250K - $300K

We pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering tangible and consistent results.

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