San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Talener

Job Title: Director of Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps
Location: 100% Remote (United States)
Required Technology and Skills: 
• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or      Cloud Infrastructure roles. 
• 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, automation, and production operations. 
• Deep AWS expertise including ECS, EC2, Auto Scaling, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Load Balancers, and multi-account cloud environments. 
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar programmatic frameworks. 
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipelineCodeBuild, Bitbucket Pipelines, or equivalent technologies. 
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, incident response, logging, alerting, and SLO-driven engineering practices. 
• Cloud security experience including IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and security best practices. 
• Experience supporting highly available, real-time production platforms at scale. 
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies. 
Responsibilities: 
• Serve as a player-coach, leading and mentoring a small team of highly skilled DevOps and SRE engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and operational execution. 
• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the company's AWS-based platform. 
• Drive infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture, deployment automation, and platform modernization efforts. 
• Lead incident response, operational excellence initiatives, and continuous improvement of production systems. 
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and executive leadership teams. 
• Participate in on-call rotations and help establish best practices across reliability engineering and platform operations
Compensation:
 • $200,000-$250,000 Base Salary 
• Equity Package 
• Comprehensive Benefits
Additional Information: This is a rare opportunity to join a fully remote, remote-first organization in a highly visible leadership role. The ideal candidate enjoys balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution and thrives in a player-coach environment where they can directly influence the reliability and future direction of a mission-critical cloud platform. 
To apply, please contact Brian Samela/bsamela@talener.com.
 
 

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