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Blackpoint Cyber · 3 days ago

Director of SRE

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$189K/yr - $242K/yr

10+ years exp

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. As a Director of SRE, you will lead the infrastructure, reliability, and cost optimization efforts for mission-critical services, ensuring scalability, availability, and efficiency of cloud infrastructure while managing a team of SREs.

ComputerCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySoftware

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Establish SRE best practices, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning

Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring quick detection and resolution of reliability issues

Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual intervention through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines

Lead a team of SREs, applying Blackpoint Cyber's management values of Coach, Model, Care, in defining business-critical outcomes, creating action plans, and supporting the team in achieving them

Continue hands-on contributions in an SRE role

Design, implement, and support key infrastructure, including automated attack infrastructure deployment, isolated identity and productivity environments, and secure data storage

Establish and apply security hygiene and monitoring policies to meet Blackpoint Cyber security requirements

Monitor and optimize cloud spending, ensuring cost-effective resource utilization without compromising reliability

Define and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., right-sizing instances, leveraging spot instances, optimizing storage, etc.)

Work closely with finance and procurement teams to forecast infrastructure costs and align expenses with business objectives

Manage and mentor a team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure specialists

Partner with engineering teams to design reliable and scalable architectures, embedding reliability into development workflows

Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, security hardening, and disaster recovery readiness

Drive post-incident reviews, ensuring continuous improvement in system resilience

Qualification

AWSAzureGCPInfrastructure-as-CodeCI/CD pipelinesKubernetesMonitoring toolsCost managementSLA/SLO/SLIsLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles

5+ years of experience in people management, leading SRE team

Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with expertise in cost management and scaling strategies

Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and container orchestration

Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk)

Proven ability to optimize cloud costs (COGS) while maintaining reliability and performance

Strong leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Experience with SLA/SLO/SLIs will be valuable

"Engineering efficiency" through self-serve tooling

Preferred

Experience working in a cybersecurity or high-security environment

Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, etc.)

Knowledge of serverless architectures and edge computing

Experience working with FinOps teams to manage cloud costs effectively

Benefits

Offers Equity

Offers Bonus

Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans

Robust 401k plan

Discretionary Time Off

Other minor perks

Company

Blackpoint Cyber

Blackpoint Cyber is a provider of cybersecurity threat hunting, detection, and response technology.

Founded in 2014

Ellicott City, Maryland, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.blackpointcyber.com

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