Director - Reliability Engineering
Job Title: Director - Reliability Engineering
Career Level: F
Introduction to role
Are you ready to lead the charge in transforming our hosting platform reliability? We are seeking a visionary Director of Hosting Reliability Engineering to spearhead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our global enterprise environment. This executive role is pivotal in ensuring resilience, scalability, and operational excellence for our most critical business applications. If you possess deep technical infrastructure knowledge and leadership acumen, this is your chance to make a significant impact!
Accountabilities
Strategic Leadership: Define and implement the enterprise reliability engineering roadmap aligned with business priorities and IT transformation goals.
Lead Global Reliability Operations: Oversee design, deployment, and operation of enterprise hosting platforms supporting critically important applications.
Establish SRE Best Practices: Implement and standardize SRE practices including SLAs/SLOs/SLIs.
Ensure Operational Excellence: Improve platform performance, availability, and capacity through automation, monitoring, and proactive incident prevention.
Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with architecture, security, compliance, and business partners to align infrastructure goals with enterprise objectives.
Resilience & DR Planning: Define and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for enterprise workloads.
Infrastructure Automation: Champion automation of operations through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and self-healing systems.
Talent Leadership: Build and mentor an impactful, globally distributed team of Reliability Engineers.
Compliance and Governance: Ensure platforms meet enterprise security, regulatory, and data residency requirements.
Essential Skills/Experience
12+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or site reliability engineering in large enterprise environments
Drive adoption of modern reliability engineering practices such as observability, fault tolerance, self-healing infrastructure, and disaster recovery automation.
5+ years in a leadership capacity, managing global engineering or operations teams
Demonstrable experience managing large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on uptime and performance
Demonstrated ability to lead incident response and complex infrastructure fix.
Demonstrated executive presence with strong essential communication skills, enabling effective engagement with senior partners and translation of complex technical topics into business-aligned insights
Critical thinking, ability to question assumptions, weigh evidence, and consider alternative perspectives before reaching a conclusion
Openness to change, willingness and ability to accept new insights, adapt to different circumstances, and support innovation
Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills
Awareness of developments in the marketplace and understand the relevance and potential impact to AZ.
Desirable Skills/Experience
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