Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE
At DDN · Remote - North Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Salary: US$250,000–300,000 a year
- DevOps and infrastructure
- Full-time
- Director or above
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- Posted
- 27 July 2026
- First seen by us
- 15 October 2026
- Last checked
- 13 hours ago
Job description
From DDN’s job post, as they wrote it.
We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader to build and own the Release Engineering, SecDevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) functions for Infinia. This is a foundational role: you'll define how our software is built, secured, released, and kept running at enterprise scale.
If you thrive at the intersection of infrastructure automation, operational excellence, and team building — and you want your work to directly shape the reliability and velocity of a market-leading storage platform — this is your role.
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What You'll Do
Release Engineering
* Own the end-to-end release pipeline — build systems, artifact management, versioning, and release gating
* Drive automation of build, test, and packaging workflows to maximize developer velocity
* Define release cadence, branching strategies, and code freeze processes with engineering leadership
DevOps and SecDevOps
* Architect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and developer toolchains for on-prem and cloud
* Embed security into the SDLC — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management
* Champion automation-first DevOps practices from commit to production delivery
Site Reliability Engineering
* Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; own incident response and post-mortem culture
* Drive observability — logging, metrics, distributed tracing — across the platform
* Influence reliability and operability early, at design and code-review stages
* Lead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling decisions
Leadership
* Build, mentor, and grow teams across all three disciplines in a global, distributed org
* Communicate roadmap and risks to senior leadership; partner cross-functionally with product, QA, and security
What You Bring
* 12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE — with 5+ years managing engineering teams
* Deep experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton, or similar)
* Infrastructure-as-code fluency: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent
* Container orchestration expertise: Kubernetes and Docker in production
* Practical DevSecOps background — you've shipped security tooling, not just talked about it
* SRE chops: SLO/SLI design, on-call frameworks, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
* Strong communicator — you can translate complex technical tradeoffs for exec and non-technical audiences
Bonus Points
* Experience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure software
* Familiarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platforms
* Background scaling DevOps in high-growth, globally distributed environments
* Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirements
Why DDN
* Work on infrastructure that underpins some of the world's most demanding AI and research workloads
* Greenfield opportunity to shape Release Engineering, DevOps, and SRE from the ground up for Infinia
* Collaborative, engineering-first culture that values autonomy, technical depth, and continuous learning
* Competitive compensation, remote-first flexibility, and a team that genuinely enjoys solving hard problems
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