DNS & Platform Reliability Lead

DigiCert; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company matching

Generous paid time off and holidays

Parental leave and family support

Life and disability coverage

Health savings options

Job summary

DigiCert is seeking a Technical Systems Manager to lead a team of DevOps engineers responsible for architecting, implementing, and operating large-scale DNS infrastructure. The role blends hands-on distributed systems work with strong leadership, aiming to ensure reliability, scalability, automation, and security across production environments.

You will drive reliability practices, infrastructure automation, and cross-functional collaboration to meet stringent SLA, security, and performance

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• 3+ years managing technical engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of operations and distributed systems in production.
• Experience operating high‑scale distributed systems.
• Strong Linux systems administration expertise.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and virtualization/orchestration.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps Engineers.
• Set technical direction and operational standards for infrastructure engineering.
• Drive automation, observability, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and hiring initiatives.
• Manage team capacity planning, on‑call rotations, and incident response readiness.
• Oversee design and operation of globally distributed DNS infrastructure.
• Maintain hardened, compliant, and secure production environments.
• Own service reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs) and incident reviews.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Infrastructure

Team leadership

Linux administration

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Observability

Incident response

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

CI/CD pipelines

Virtualization

Orchestration

Kubernetes

Job description

DigiCert is seeking a Technical Systems Manager to lead a team of DevOps engineers responsible for architecting, implementing, and operating large-scale DNS infrastructure. The role blends hands-on distributed systems work with strong leadership, aiming to ensure reliability, scalability, automation, and security across production environments.

You will drive reliability practices, infrastructure automation, and cross-functional collaboration to meet stringent SLA, security, and performance