Director of Site Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure

TechChain Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Development Foundation seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a 4-person SRE team and shape how production services are owned, operated, and improved. The role reports to the CTO and drives the engineering culture around reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure.

You will define the vision and operating model for SRE, owning core infrastructure services and enabling engineering teams to deploy with confidence across cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE, infra engineering, or related roles.
• 5+ years leading infrastructure or reliability teams.
• 3+ years modern cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or similar
• 3+ years Kubernetes, container orchestration, IaC, CI/CD, and deployment safety

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team of 4 with clear vision and priorities.
• Define and roll out a Service Ownership and Maturity Framework across engineering.
• Own and improve core infra services including cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, and automation.
• Help teams become stronger owners and operators with better standards, dashboards, runbooks, and on-call practices.
• Make reliability and developer productivity measurable with trusted metrics and operational intelligence.
• Improve deployment automation, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Mature incident response, escalation, postmortems, and on-call health across distributed teams.
• Build self-service infrastructure to reduce toil and accelerate delivery

Skills

SRE experience

Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Incident response

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Stellar Development Foundation seeks a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a 4-person SRE team and shape how production services are owned, operated, and improved. The role reports to the CTO and drives the engineering culture around reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure.

You will define the vision and operating model for SRE, owning core infrastructure services and enabling engineering teams to deploy with confidence across cloud foundations, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and