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 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