Vice President DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

The Vice President of DevOps & SRE is a senior leadership role that holds the responsibility of driving platform reliability, secure operations, and DevOps excellence across the enterprise. This position involves integrating site reliability engineering practices with scalable DevOps automation and ensuring a robust cybersecurity posture. As the VP, you will lead high-performing teams, define technology strategy, manage infrastructure, and safeguard systems and data to support business growth and digital innovation. Your key responsibilities will include: - Leading enterprise-wide DevOps adoption and continuous delivery transformation. - Implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and cloud-native architectures. - Championing automation in deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure provisioning. - Having experience with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), service mesh, and serverless environments. - Fostering collaboration between development, operations, and QA for rapid, reliable releases. In addition, you will be responsible for: - Establishing and leading the SRE function to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance. - Defining and monitoring SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for critical applications and services. - Driving incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortem culture. - Developing and deploying observability strategies utilizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or enterprise tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, etc. Furthermore, the role will involve: - Building and mentoring cross-functional teams across DevOps and SRE. - Partnering with engineering, product, and business leaders to align technical initiatives with organizational goals. - Developing and managing departmental budgets, tools, and vendor relationships. - Reporting on KPIs, operational health, security posture, and risk to the executive leadership team. Qualifications: Required qualifications for this role include: - Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 15+ years of experience in IT/engineering with at least 5+ years in leadership roles. - Proven experience in implementing DevOps, SRE, and security practices at scale. - Hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP; CI/CD tools; and SRE observability platforms.,