Vice President Site Reliability Engineering (Data Centers)
Vice President Site Reliability Engineering (Data Centers)
L7
Occupations
Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsComputer and Information Systems ManagersNetwork and Computer Systems AdministratorsIndustries
Computer Systems Design ServicesComputing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related ServicesOther Computer Related Services- Automation Platform Leadership: Oversee a specialized SRE team focused on the design, deployment, and maintenance of automation toolsets as well as the systems they interact with.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Governance: Establish and enforce standards for IaC to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments acrossan entire infrastructure ecosystem. Strong proficiency in Terraform is required.
- Configuration Management: Lead the strategy for automated configuration and state management, ensuring
- Ansibleplaybooks and
- Packerimage pipelines are optimized for both Windows, Linux, and ESXi Platforms.
- Monitoring & Observability: Manage the monitoring and health of the automation platforms themselves. Implement SLIs/SLOs to ensure the "tools that build the servers" are highly available and performant.
- Lifecycle Management: Drive the automated lifecycle of both physical and virtual assets, from initial template creation/deployment to automated patching, scaling, and decommissioning.
- Custom Tooling & Scripting: Lead the development of custom scripts and internal providers (Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash) to provide better insights and tooling for our systems.
- Collaboration: Outside of the automation team you will need to be able to collaborate and foster workflows alongside the rest of the Datacenter team and be able to facilitate needs for the team as a whole.
- Capacity & Performance: Analyze system behavior and resource utilization in virtual environments to optimize the performance of automated deployments.
- Mentorship & Growth: Provide technical guidance and career mentorship to SREs, fostering a culture of "automate-first" and continuous improvement.
- 6-10 years' experience in Infrastructure, SRE or DevOps, specifically focused on infrastructure automation at scale.
- Deep proficiency with
- Terraform(providers, modules, state management) and
- Ansible(roles, playbooks, Tower/AWX).Hands-on experience with Image Creation (i.e. Packer, Ansible, SCCM) to build standardized, hardened images for both
- Windows and Linuxin hybrid environments.
- Strong experience managing and automatingvirtual platforms such as VMware (vSphere/vCenter) as well as Cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.High-level scripting skills in mediums such as Python, Go, PowerShell, and Bash.
- Experience with observability tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana) to monitor infrastructure health and automation telemetry.
- Good understanding of Network topology and design as well as experience with platforms such as Juniper Networks or Palo Alto.
- Strong mastery ofGit(branching strategies, PR workflows) and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions).Equal comfort managing, troubleshooting, and tuning performance for both Windows Server and Linux.
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Company paid sick leave
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents 3% 401(k) company contribution
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through GingerFree daily snacks in-office
- Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
- Employee Resource Groups*Benefits may vary depending on location.
Level
ManagerL7
Location
Dallas, TX
Occupation
Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
Posted
yesterday
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