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Blackpoint Cyber

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51 - 200 employees

💰 $190M Series C on 2023-06

Blackpoint Cyber is a technology-focused cybersecurity company headquartered in Maryland, USA. The company was established by former US Department of Defense and Intelligence security experts and leverages its real-world cyber experience and knowledge of malicious tradecraft to help MSPs safeguard their infrastructure and operations.

📋 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