Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

About this role

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.

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
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• 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
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• 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