Director, Engineering - Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

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 DoRelease EngineeringOwn the end-to-end release pipeline — build systems, artifact management, versioning, and release gatingDrive automation of build, test, and packaging workflows to maximize developer velocityDefine release cadence, branching strategies, and code freeze processes with engineering leadershipDevOps and SecDevOpsArchitect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and developer toolchains for on-prem and cloudEmbed security into the SDLC — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets managementChampion automation-first DevOps practices from commit to production deliverySite Reliability EngineeringDefine SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; own incident response and post-mortem cultureDrive observability — logging, metrics, distributed tracing — across the platformInfluence reliability and operability early, at design and code-review stagesLead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling decisionsLeadershipBuild, mentor, and grow teams across all three disciplines in a global, distributed orgCommunicate roadmap and risks to senior leadership; partner cross-functionally with product, QA, and securityWhat You Bring12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE — with 5+ years managing engineering teamsDeep experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton, or similar)Infrastructure-as-code fluency: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalentContainer orchestration expertise: Kubernetes and Docker in productionPractical DevSecOps background — you've shipped security tooling, not just talked about itSRE 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 audiencesBonus PointsExperience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure softwareFamiliarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platformsBackground scaling DevOps in high-growth, globally distributed environmentsExposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirementsWhy DDNWork on infrastructure that underpins some of the world's most demanding AI and research workloadsGreenfield opportunity to shape Release Engineering, DevOps, and SRE from the ground up for InfiniaCollaborative, engineering-first culture that values autonomy, technical depth, and continuous learningCompetitive compensation, remote-first flexibility, and a team that genuinely enjoys solving hard problemsCompensation Range: $250K - $300KLocationRemote - North CarolinaEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentDepartmentEngineeringEngineeringInfinia EngineeringCompensation$250K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus