Senior Director, Site Reliability & Platform Engineering

Senior Director, Site Reliability & Platform Engineering

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Senior Director, Site Reliability & Platform Engineering

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Job Description
At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold

“what if.”

Job Description
At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold “what if.”
What if your ideas could ignite global innovation?
What if your curiosity could redefine the future?
We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it’s like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500 , and we’re looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold “what if” can take the world, your community, and your career.
Here, how we empower our people is extraordinary: Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and Cigna Healthy Workforce honors three years running — and what we build is world-class: recognized as CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 —evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every “what if” into “what’s next”.
In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox .
Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering
We have an opportunity for a Senior Director, Site Reliability and Platform Engineering to join our SRE and DevOps team in Tacoma, WA, reporting to Vice President, Engineering. In this pivotal role, you will foster a culture of product reliability across all of Engineering, drive and support the SRE team in conducting risk analyses, and work with Engineering leadership to ensure operational excellence of cloud-scale, high-availability systems. Collaborating closely with Product Management, Engineering, IT, and Product Security Engineering, you will manage the SRE and DevOps teams, using your abilities to incorporate roadmap objectives. This is an essential position in the Engineering organization with executive-level visibility, driving change with other senior leaders to achieve departmental and corporate goals. You are the ideal candidate if you are a visionary who lives and breathes reliability at scale.
Be a Contributor - What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of reliability and platform engineers, championing a culture of reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement across all Infoblox customer products, both on-prem and SaaS
• Establish a charter for best-in-class site reliability engineering, and drive Engineering teams toward achieving these best practices
• Institute a set of tools and processes that ensure monitoring, observability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and incident management systems can support 99.999 availability for critical services
• Manage large-scale infrastructure and applications across multiple cloud providers using a mix of native cloud, open-source, and commercial off-the-shelf tools
• Work with stakeholders, including Engineering, IT, Product Management, and Customer Support, to define and ensure customer-driven SLIs/SLOs exist for both new and existing functionality
• Communicate progress by highlighting the accomplishments, risks, mitigation, and other pertinent key performance indicators that feed into Infoblox’s overarching business strategy
• Facilitate continuous training programs for Engineering that reduce risk, including completion of annual reliability training for Engineering staff
• Drive product reliability, operational, and efficiency metrics with automation, allowing management to understand the maturity and risk levels in various product areas
  

Be Prepared - What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or related roles with at least 5 years of this time in a director-level role
• 10+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, and DevOps practices
• Proven experience managing large-scale, high-availability systems with an emphasis on containers and Kubernetes environments
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and incident management processes
• Experience automation and scripting like Python and Go and experience with monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Experience maintaining SOC2, FedRAMP, or ISO 27001 certifications
• Experience working within a global team structure
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Solid business analysis or financial modeling skills to run the analysis for various projects and good understanding of product and software development principles and industry frameworks
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills combined with impeccable business judgment
  

Be Successful — Your Path
First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors, and map the systems and stakeholders that rely on your work.
Six Months: Deliver a signature win: ship a feature, close a marquee deal, launch a campaign, or roll out a game-changing process.
One Year: Own your domain, mentor the next newcomer, and steer our roadmap with data-driven ideas.
Belong— Your Community
Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you’ll grow and belong here.
Be Rewarded — Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong

• Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
• Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a “No Jerks” policy that keeps collaboration healthy
• Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
• Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
• We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: $211,800 -$329,670 plus corporate bonus
  

Ready to Be the Difference?
Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis
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• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security

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