Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering

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

Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering

Optomi, in partnership with our client, are seeking an experienced Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering, to join their team on a direct hire basis, hybrid 2x/week in Tacoma, WA.

We’re seeking a visionary Senior Director of Site Reliability and Platform Engineering to lead and scale our global SRE and DevOps organization. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape reliability strategy, drive operational excellence, and ensure our products perform seamlessly at cloud scale.

In this executive-facing role, you’ll collaborate closely with senior engineering and product leaders to build a culture of reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement—laying the foundation for the next phase of growth.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of reliability and platform engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence and innovation.
• Define and execute a best-in-class SRE charter, ensuring observability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and incident management to achieve 99.999% availability.
• Manage and optimize large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) using a mix of native, open-source, and commercial tools.
• Automate and measure reliability through metrics that enhance visibility into product performance, maturity, and risk.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, IT, and Security to establish and meet SLIs/SLOs that drive customer success.
• Implement ongoing reliability training programs across engineering teams to reduce risk and improve response readiness.
• Report key metrics and insights to leadership, highlighting progress, risks, and opportunities aligned to business strategy.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines, with 5+ years in a senior leadership (Director or above) role.
• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), containers, and Kubernetes at enterprise scale.
• Proven success managing large, distributed engineering teams (100+).
• Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD, monitoring, incident management, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, Go, etc.).
• Experience maintaining compliance frameworks such as SOC2, FedRAMP, or ISO 27001.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong business and analytical acumen—able to connect reliability initiatives to strategic and financial outcomes.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

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