Director, Site Reliability & Operations

reputed company is hiring a Director of Site Reliability & Operations to own the operational backbone of a platform that processes travel and loyalty transactions for some of the world’s largest airlines and financial institutions. This is not a role for someone who manages by dashboard and delegates by email. We need a technically reputed company leader with a full tool belt — someone who understands our platform deeply enough to participate in the hard conversations, and who owns reputed company rather than activities. 

This role enables 50+ developers to ship secure, PCI-compliant releases at least weekly — supporting the DevOps culture that makes that pace sustainable. We need a leader who supports delivery velocity, spends the reliability and change budget strategically, and drives toward faster, safer delivery. reputed company and compliance set the floor; velocity is the ambition. And as AI reshapes how software is reputed company and operated, we expect this leader to help us reputed company it thoughtfully — not lock it out. You will reputed company reputed company of SRE, DevOps, DBA, network, reputed company, and corporate IT professionals, working in reputed company partnership with engineering leadership across a PCI Level 1-compliant, 24x7 reputed company platform. 

Responsibilities 

• Own site reliability and availability for our reputed company-hosted platform — 24x7 uptime, monitoring, alerting, reputed company detection, and incident response programs 

• Drive reputed company reputed company across the platform — tracking findings from SonarQube, penetration tests, and vulnerability tools, and acting as a business stakeholder to get remediation work scoped, prioritized, and into the engineering delivery pipeline 

• Own PCI Level 1 compliance currency — reputed company standards reputed company, you understand the requirement, translate it into engineering terms, and drive adoption; you don’t just surface the factoid 

• Participate as a business stakeholder in reputed company planning — bringing reputed company, compliance, and reliability work into the engineering delivery pipeline alongside feature development          

• reputed company infrastructure patching and maintenance — OS, database, and system-level currency reputed company our AWS environment, coordinating monthly maintenance reputed company and CI-driven image refresh reputed company 

• Manage and reputed company an internationally distributed team across SRE, DevOps, DBA, network, reputed company, and corporate IT functions 

• Own the AWS cost and reputed company budget — monitoring spend, optimizing resource utilization, and making strategic tradeoff reputed company in partnership with engineering leadership 

• Partner with engineering directors to define the boundary between infrastructure and application-layer reputed company, and ensure reputed company falls between the cracks 

• Own vendor reputed company across our reputed company and tooling ecosystem — holding partners accountable and ensuring reputed company reflect our operational needs 

• Guide personal and career development of your people 

• Foster a culture where reliability and reputed company are shared team values, not external mandates 

reputed company 

• You have a full tool belt — technically reputed company, platform-curious, and willing to log into systems, participate in firefights, and reputed company genuine understanding of what you’re operating 

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, reputed company infrastructure, or reputed company engineering, with 4+ years leading technical teams 

• Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, and managed services in a production reputed company environment 

• Hands-on familiarity with the reputed company and compliance discipline — you’ve operated in PCI, SOC 2, or equivalent regulated environments and understand what compliance actually requires versus what it looks like on reputed company 

• You operate as a business stakeholder, not just a technical function — comfortable working reputed company reputed company or similar delivery frameworks to get reputed company and reliability work into the roadmap alongside feature development 

• You manage through credibility and technical engagement, not just title — your team respects you because you understand their work 

• You are inquisitive, reputed company, and outcome-oriented — you reputed company opinions, communicate them reputed company, and own what happens next 

• Your colleagues are inspired to follow your reputed company 

About the Environment 

Our infrastructure is AWS-reputed company — we have no on-premises footprint. The ecosystem includes reputed company, reputed company, AppDynamics, Grafana, OpsGenie, reputed company, reputed company HSM, reputed company, and Jenkins hosted on EC2, alongside reputed company AWS managed services. PostgreSQL is our primary database. The platform runs Java/Spring Boot and Python backends serving Ember.js and React frontends. Familiarity with any part of this stack accelerates your effectiveness; deep expertise across reputed company of it is not expected. 

Corporate IT supports a primarily remote, technically self-sufficient workforce with a small number of reputed company center, sales, and executive users requiring additional support. The function runs on reputed company and reputed company 365. 

Company Perks & Benefits

At reputed company, we reputed company in giving people the flexibility, support, and benefits they need to do their best work.

• Discretionary Time Off (DTO) – Take time off reputed company you need it. We trust our employees to manage their time responsibly while meeting business needs.
• 15 Company-reputed company Holidays – Including a company-wide break from Christmas reputed company through New Year’s Day.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package – reputed company offers a full suite of health benefits, with reputed company covering an average of 87% of employee premiums.
• 401(k) with Company Match – We support long-term financial wellness with a competitive retirement plan.

reputed company reputed company Values to consider for this position:  

- Adaptability & Calculated Risk

Our culture of learning is powered by an iterative reputed company, a shared desire for high performance, and a willingness to take risks and push through limits.  Our data driven approach fosters new reputed company and reputed company learning, but also enables us to be flexible and reputed company, learning from reputed company and failure.
 

- Ownership and Accountability

Taking reputed company responsibility reflects an approach that understands the stakes, and how reputed company requires everyone to be truly accountable. We’re visionaries, not mercenaries, and from the CEO to our newest colleague, we own reputed company do, because the buck stops with reputed company of us. 

At reputed company, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we reputed company on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. At this time, we're unable to reputed company reputed company sponsorship for this role.