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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Engineering - Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE - **Company:** DDN, LLC - **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $300,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Key Management, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Management of Software Versions, Enterprise Data Management, Data Logging, Pulumi, Grafana, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Build Tools, Machine Learning Operations, Terraform, Dynatrace, Devsecops, Docker, Jenkins, Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing - **Published:** July 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ae48696b2bbc83e9 ## About the Role * 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 ## Description 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 ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [DevOps at Netflix](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/270-devops-at-netflix) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/485-we-adopted-devops-and-are-cloud-native-now-what) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026)