Remote SRE Director | Cloud Reliability & Leadership

Talener; California (MO); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Package

Comprehensive Benefits

Remote-first

Job summary

Talener is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps for a fully remote role in the United States. You will lead a small, high‑caliber team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, automation, and production operations, ensuring reliability and security of our AWS‑based platform.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in SRE/DevOps, 4+ years in leadership, and strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, with hands‑on expertise in AWS (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch) and IaC tools

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, automation, and production operations.
• Deep AWS expertise including ECS, EC2, Auto Scaling, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and multi-account cloud environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar programmatic frameworks.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Bitbucket Pipelines, or equivalent technologies.
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, incident response, logging, alerting, and SLO-driven engineering practices.
• Cloud security experience including IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and security best practices.
• Experience supporting highly available, real-time production platforms at scale.
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a player-coach, leading and mentoring a small team of highly skilled DevOps and SRE engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and operational execution.
• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the company's AWS-based platform.
• Drive infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture, deployment automation, and platform modernization efforts.
• Lead incident response, operational excellence initiatives, and continuous improvement of production systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and executive leadership teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help establish best practices across reliability engineering and platform operations

Skills

Leadership

Team management

TypeScript/JavaScript

Cloud architecture

SRE/DevOps mindset

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild

Bitbucket Pipelines

Monitoring/Observability tools

Job description

Talener is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps for a fully remote role in the United States. You will lead a small, high‑caliber team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, automation, and production operations, ensuring reliability and security of our AWS‑based platform.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in SRE/DevOps, 4+ years in leadership, and strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, with hands‑on expertise in AWS (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch) and IaC tools