Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Blackpoint Cyber, a leading cybersecurity company, as a Senior SRE Manager. Lead infrastructure, reliability, and cost optimization efforts for mission-critical services. Ensure scalability, availability, and efficiency of cloud infrastructure while optimizing COGS. This role demands strong leadership, hands-on infrastructure expertise, and cost-effective scaling strategies. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams. The position requires significant experience in SRE, DevOps, and people management. Blackpoint offers competitive benefits.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• 3+ years of experience in people management, leading SRE team
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with expertise in cost management and scaling strategies
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and container orchestration
• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk)
• Proven ability to optimize cloud costs (COGS) while maintaining reliability and performance
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with SLA/SLO/SLIs will be valuable
• "Engineering efficiency" through self-serve tooling

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Establish SRE best practices, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning
• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring quick detection and resolution of reliability issues
• Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual intervention through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines
• Lead a team of SREs, applying Blackpoint Cyber's management values of Coach, Model, Care, in defining business-critical outcomes, creating action plans, and supporting the team in achieving them
• Continue hands-on contributions in an SRE role, delivering individual impact up to 50% of the time
• Design, implement, and support key infrastructure, including automated attack infrastructure deployment, isolated identity and productivity environments, and secure data storage
• Establish and apply security hygiene and monitoring policies to meet Blackpoint Cyber security requirements
• Monitor and optimize cloud spending, ensuring cost-effective resource utilization without compromising reliability
• Define and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., right-sizing instances, leveraging spot instances, optimizing storage, etc.)
• Work closely with finance and procurement teams to forecast infrastructure costs and align expenses with business objectives
• Manage and mentor a team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure specialists
• Partner with engineering teams to design reliable and scalable architectures, embedding reliability into development workflows
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, security hardening, and disaster recovery readiness
• Drive post-incident reviews, ensuring continuous improvement in system resilience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a cybersecurity or high-security environment
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, etc.)
• Knowledge of serverless architectures and edge computing
• Experience working with FinOps teams to manage cloud costs effectively

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans
• A robust 401k plan
• Discretionary Time Off
• Other minor perks