Global SRE & Platform Engineering Director

Optomi; Tacoma (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm seeks a Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering in Tacoma, WA. This role involves leading and scaling a global team, driving operational excellence, and ensuring high product performance in a cloud environment. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of experience, including 5+ in a senior role, with expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and team management. Competitive benefits, including medical and vision insurance, are offered.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, with 5+ in senior leadership.
• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Proven success managing large, distributed engineering teams (100+).
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD, monitoring, incident management.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, Go).
• Experience maintaining compliance frameworks (SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001).
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of reliability and platform engineers.
• Define and execute a best-in-class SRE charter achieving 99.999% availability.
• Manage and optimize large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Automate and measure reliability through performance metrics.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to establish SLIs/SLOs.
• Implement ongoing reliability training programs across teams.
• Report key metrics to leadership highlighting progress and risks.

Skills

Site Reliability

Platform Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

Leadership

Automation

CI/CD

Monitoring Tools

Incident Management

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Go

Job description

A leading IT consulting firm seeks a Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering in Tacoma, WA. This role involves leading and scaling a global team, driving operational excellence, and ensuring high product performance in a cloud environment. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of experience, including 5+ in a senior role, with expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and team management. Competitive benefits, including medical and vision insurance, are offered.