Lead SRE & Platform Engineering

Armor Defense Inc.; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Armor Defense Inc. seeks a hands‑on Manager for SRE & Platform Engineering to lead reliability for production infrastructure, including managed security services, enterprise cloud, and MDR platforms.

You will direct incident response, define reliability strategy, and develop engineering talent in a hybrid Plano, Texas and remote environment. This role combines people management with direct operational accountability, overseeing monitoring, automation, audits, and capacity planning across

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE/DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering in production environments.
• 2+ years in leading or managing engineering teams.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP acceptable).
• Experience with IaC (Terraform or equivalent) and CI/CD/GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the SRE and infrastructure engineering team and set technical direction.
• Own on-call coverage, incident response, escalation, and blameless postmortems.
• Automate infrastructure operations across CI/CD, IaC, and self-healing systems.
• Oversee infrastructure spanning VMware/Proxmox private cloud, AWS/Azure/GCP, and hybrid envs.
• Own monitoring, alerting, observability, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Coordinate migrations, platform transitions, and capacity planning with leadership.

Skills

SRE/DevOps leadership

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Automation & IaC

CI/CD / GitOps

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Observability (Datadog, Prometheus,/in

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

VMware vSphere

Proxmox

NSX-T

Zerto

Rubrik

Job description

Armor Defense Inc. seeks a hands‑on Manager for SRE & Platform Engineering to lead reliability for production infrastructure, including managed security services, enterprise cloud, and MDR platforms.

You will direct incident response, define reliability strategy, and develop engineering talent in a hybrid Plano, Texas and remote environment. This role combines people management with direct operational accountability, overseeing monitoring, automation, audits, and capacity planning across