Director of SRE

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Blackpoint Cyber

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 $190M Series C on 2023-06

Consulting • Defense • Cybersecurity

Blackpoint Cyber is a technology-focused cybersecurity company headquartered in Maryland, USA. Established by former US Department of Defense and Intelligence security experts, Blackpoint leverages its real-world cyber experience to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) safeguard their infrastructure and operations. The company offers a proprietary cybersecurity ecosystem, including its SNAP-Defense platform for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services. Blackpoint's dedicated security analysts work 24/7 to combine various security measures, including network visualization and endpoint security, to monitor and respond to threats. Additionally, Blackpoint is launching LogIC, a logging and integrated compliance service designed to assist MSPs with cyber compliance requirements. The company's mission is to deliver comprehensive detection and response services to help MSPs combat the evolving threat landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure) • 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 • 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 • R&D with AI tooling and other SRE tools such as Grafana IRN, Loki, and Alloy • 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 global 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

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles • 5+ 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 • A general understanding of the modern AI tooling landscape and how SRE can use that to increase velocity and improve stability

🏖️ Benefits

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