Director of SRE

Summary

Join Remote as an SRE Director and empower engineers and engineering managers to deploy and run the product, enhancing developer experience. Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize budget and personnel allocation based on the roadmap. Manage and improve existing infrastructure, build the next generation of the Remote platform using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker, and streamline deployment processes. Work with the Security team to mitigate threats and support engineering and product teams to improve scalability, stability, and reliability. Manage the SRE team's work plan, roadmap, budget, and participate in hiring and performance assessments. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices
• Solid knowledge of the tools and frameworks used at Remote
• Solid communication skills
• Solid organisation skills
• Solid understanding of prioritization and optimization processes
• Mentors others to inspire and instill confidence
• Works with Engineering managers to manage people allocation
• Works with the wider Engineering Department to ensure roadmap execution
• Understands and deploys growth initiatives
• Solid comprehension of department dynamics and team building
• Understand allocation dynamics of big groups of people and clearly articulates this
• Can manage a group of Engineers
• Solid experience hiring people
• Solid experience managing department budget
• Works across multiple departments of the business to ensure mission success
• Understands the leadership responsibilities and prioritises execution of company-wide strategy
• Proactively addresses issues across multiple departments by working with stakeholders
• Proactively participates in leadership debates and offers solutions to adjacent areas of expertise
• Works with all stakeholders to achieve global maxima for results
• Solid display of Remote 💎 Values
• Proactively seeks new tools and frameworks that can improve the team's productivity
• Clearly communicates needs and requirements to optimise productivity across teams
• Implements feedback and mentoring in all teams
• Suggests new initiatives and approaches to current problems
• Helps everyone grow continuously
• Clearly aligns mission and vision across multiple teams
• Publicly empowers the team and gives visibility to the work group successes

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve existing infrastructure
• Build the next generation of Remote platform: using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker
• Streamline and automate deployment processes
• Work closely with the Security team to keep on top of potential threats/patches
• Support our engineers and product teams to improve overall scalability, stability and reliability
• Manage the SRE Team workplan, tasks and roadmap
• Participate in hiring, performance assessment and overall career lifecycle of all reports
• Own SRE department roadmap and implementation
• Own SRE team budget and allocation

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async )
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces