Vice President Site Reliability Engineering (Data Centers)

Galaxy; Chicago, New York, Dallas (IL, NY, TX); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid health benefits

3% 401(k) company contribution

Company-paid sick leave

Ginger coaching and counseling

Job summary

Galaxy Digital Inc. is seeking a collaborative SRE leader to drive data-center automation across Chicago, NYC, and Dallas. You will shape an enterprise automation roadmap, balancing hands-on coding with strategic direction while treating infrastructure as a product.

Lead a specialized SRE team, govern IaC with Terraform and Ansible, and push reliable, self-service platforms across hybrid environments to boost engineering velocity and system stability.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps experience focused on automation at scale.
• Deep proficiency with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building OS images with Packer for Windows and Linux.
• Experience with VMware and cloud providers Azure and AWS.
• Scripting in Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Automation Platform Leadership: oversee a specialized SRE team focused on automation toolsets and systems.
• IaC Governance: establish standards for Terraform and secure deployments across the infrastructure.
• Configuration Management: lead Ansible playbooks and Packer pipelines for Windows and Linux.
• Monitoring & Observability: manage monitoring and SLIs/SLOs for reliability of tools.
• Lifecycle Management: automate lifecycle of physical and virtual assets, patching, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Custom Tooling & Scripting: develop Python/Go/PowerShell scripts for insights and tooling.
• Collaboration: partner with Datacenter teams and other stakeholders to enable workflows.
• Capacity & Performance: optimize resource usage in virtual environments.
• Mentorship & Growth: coach SREs and foster a culture of automate-first.

Skills

Leadership

SRE Strategy

Automation Mindset

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

VMware vSphere

Azure

AWS

Python

Go

PowerShell

Bash

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Vice President Site Reliability Engineering (Data Centers)

Chicago, NYC, Dallas

Who We Are:

Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, growing the economy that runs on code. Galaxy delivers the onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Anchored by its Helios campus in Texas, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity, positioning it among the largest and fastest-growing data center developers in North America.

The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Additional information about Galaxy's businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com .

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individualswhothrive in a culture of builders and overachieversandembrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are

A collaborative and strategic leader with deep hands-on experience inSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)and infrastructureAutomation. You 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 yourautomation workflows are as reliable as the services they deploy. You have a proven track record of managing complex hybrid environments and are proactive in building self-service platforms that enhance engineering velocity and system stability.

Responsibilities

• 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 acrossan entire infrastructure ecosystem. Strong proficiency in Terraform is required.
• Configuration Management: Lead the strategy for automated configuration and state management, ensuringAnsibleplaybooks andPackerimage 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.

Requirements

• 6-10 years’ experience in Infrastructure, SRE or DevOps, specifically focused on infrastructure automation at scale.
• Deep proficiency withTerraform(providers, modules, state management) andAnsible(roles, playbooks, Tower/AWX).
• Hands-on experience with Image Creation (i.e. Packer, Ansible, SCCM) to build standardized, hardened images for bothWindows and Linuxin hybrid environments.
• Strong experience managing and automatingvirtual platforms such as VMware (vSphere/vCenter) as well as Cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
• High-level scripting skills in mediums such as Python, Go, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Experience with observability tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana) to monitor infrastructure health and automation telemetry.
• Good understanding of Network topology and design as well as experience with platforms such as Juniper Networks or Palo Alto.
• Strong mastery ofGit(branching strategies, PR workflows) and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions).
• Equal comfort managing, troubleshooting, and tuning performance for both Windows Server and Linux.

Nice to Have

• Previous work experience includes notable periods of team leadership and or management.
• Experience with IAM platforms such as Entra ID, Active Directory, and Okta.
• Experience 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.

What We Offer:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Company paid sick leave
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Ginger
• Free daily snacks in-office
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups

*Benefits may vary depending on location.

Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age, race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital or partnership or caregiver status, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, or other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview, please contact [e-mail].