Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering (Data Centers)

Galaxy; Texas; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity exposure for all employees

3% employer 401(k)

Flexible time off & parental leave

Company-paid health benefits

Perks at work & Peloton membership

Job summary

Galaxy is seeking a collaborative Site Reliability Engineer Leader to oversee a specialized SRE team focused on automation toolsets and the systems they control.

You will define IaC governance, optimize image pipelines (Packer, SCCM), and drive automated lifecycle management across hybrid environments. Strong scripting and cloud experience are required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps leadership with automation focus.
• Strong Terraform, Ansible, Packer experience.
• Proficient in Windows and Linux image pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Oversee automation toolset design, deployment and maintenance.
• Establish IaC governance and standards across infrastructure.
• Lead automated configuration and state management for Windows, Linux, ESXi.

Skills

SRE leadership

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Python

Go

PowerShell

Bash

VMware vSphere

Azure

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Image creation

Observability

Tools

SCCM

Job description

• Automation Platform Leadership: Oversee a specialized SRE team focused on the design, deployment, and maintenance of automation toolsets as well as the systems they interact with
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Governance: Establish and enforce standards for IaC to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments across an entire infrastructure ecosystem. Strong proficiency in Terraform is required
• Configuration Management: Lead the strategy for automated configuration and state management, ensuring Ansible playbooks and Packer image pipelines are optimized for both Windows, Linux, and ESXi Platforms
• Monitoring & Observability: Manage the monitoring and health of the automation platforms themselves. Implement SLIs/SLOs to ensure the “tools that build the servers” are highly available and performant
• Lifecycle Management: Drive the automated lifecycle of both physical and virtual assets, from initial template creation/deployment to automated patching, scaling, and decommissioning
• Custom Tooling & Scripting: Lead the development of custom scripts and internal providers (Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash) to provide better insights and tooling for our systems
• Collaboration: Outside of the automation team you will need to be able to collaborate and foster workflows alongside the rest of the Datacenter team and be able to facilitate needs for the team as a whole
• Capacity & Performance: Analyze system behavior and resource utilization in virtual environments to optimize the performance of automated deployments
• Mentorship & Growth: Provide technical guidance and career mentorship to SREs, fostering a culture of “automate-first” and continuous improvement

Benefits

• Equity Exposure for All Employees - Through broad and meaningful equity participation, we desire to have our employees work collaboratively and act as long-term shareholders
• 401(k) Contributions- Galaxy offers a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a 3% employer contribution and access to both Traditional and Roth options (US-only)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave - You decide how many paid vacation and personal days off you want. Paid Parental Leave is available to give new parents the opportunity to care for and bond with their new child
• Full Paid Health Benefits - Company-paid health insurance for employees, partners, and other dependents, effective as of your start date
• Perks at Work - Galaxy provides various crypto education opportunities, a free Peloton membership with insurance, after-hours car service reimbursements, and more
• Employee Assistance Program - Confidential, 24/7 access to mental healthcare with a licensed therapist or psychiatrist. Benefits include 8 free video sessions per person, per year, for employees and any of their dependents age 18+

A collaborative and strategic leader with deep hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and infrastructure AutomationYou are comfortable steering the vision for an enterprise automation roadmap while remaining technical enough to dive into the code. You treat infrastructure as a product, ensuring that your automation workflows are as reliable as the services they deployYou have a proven track record of managing complex hybrid environments and are proactive in building self-service platforms that enhance engineering velocity and system stabilityHands-on experience with Image Creation (i.e. Packer, Ansible, SCCM) to build standardized, hardened images for both Windows and Linux in hybrid environmentsExperience with observability tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana) to monitor infrastructure health and automation telemetryEqual comfort managing, troubleshooting, and tuning performance for both Windows Server and LinuxGood understanding of Network topology and design as well as experience with platforms such as Juniper Networks or Palo AltoHigh-level scripting skills in mediums such as Python, Go, PowerShell, and BashDeep proficiency with Terraform (providers, modules, state management) and Ansible (roles, playbooks, Tower/AWX)Strong experience managing and automating virtual platforms such as VMware (vSphere/vCenter) as well as Cloud providers such as Azure and AWS6-10 years’ experience in Infrastructure, SRE or DevOps, specifically focused on infrastructure automation at scaleStrong mastery of Git (branching strategies, PR workflows) and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions)Previous work experience includes notable periods of team leadership and or managementExperience with IAM platforms such as Entra ID, Active Directory, and OktaExperience with Storage solutions both block based and object based hosted either on-prem (HP Alletra, EMC, DDN) or in cloud (S3, Azure Blob)Storage Backup/DR administration and management with Commvault or Veeam