Director of Cloud SRE
Skills
Computer ScienceAdoptionData CentersDynatraceIT StrategyMaturity ModelsReliability Engineering
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years in Site Reliability Engineering platform engineering or infrastructure engineering
- 4+ years in a people leadership role managing engineering leaders and/or engineers
- Experience building and operating observability platforms at scale with OpenTelemetry and an enterprise observability platform
- Proven track record designing and delivering internally-built developer tooling with CI/CD source control and developer workflow integration
- Strong working knowledge of public cloud architecture and ability to extend reliability practices into hybrid or on-premise environments
- Deep understanding of SLIs/SLOs error budgets incident management toil reduction capacity planning and reliability-by-design
- Experience operating in heterogeneous infrastructure including cloud data center and OT/manufacturing environments
- Ability to build long-term technical strategy and translate it into an executable roadmap
- Strong executive communication skills and experience aligning cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and modern software delivery practices
Nice to have
- Hands-on technical credibility
- Strategic thinker
- Cross-functional influence
- Enterprise fluency
- Builder mindset
- Systems thinking
Day to day
- Lead a global SRE team and shape the strategy for unified observability and reliability tooling across cloud and on-premise environments.
- Build and evolve internally owned platform tooling that is vendor-agnostic, OpenTelemetry-first, and integrated with developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner with SRE leaders, platform teams, and senior stakeholders to expand SRE maturity, reduce toil, improve incident practices, and drive reliability-by-design across the enterprise.