Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE
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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
About DDN
Private American data storage and AI infrastructure company serving enterprises, cloud providers, governments, and research institutions.
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