Usa - Sre Director - Los Angeles, United States - Avestacs
Description
Job Title:
SRE Director
Location:
Tempe, AZ or Los Angeles, CA
Type:
Fulltime
We're on the lookout for visionary individuals to join our pioneering team, tasked with shaping the future of streaming products.
As a key member of our team, you'll drive innovation and significantly contribute to our mission of pioneering the next generation of streaming products.
Our current advanced digital solutions, accessed by millions across web, mobile, and living room devices, signify just the start of our ambitious journey.
About The Role:
A Snapshot of Your Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the implementation and operation of cloud infrastructure and EKSbased platform supporting direct to consumer APIs to solve thundering herd problems associated with live events.
- Work closely with Video & Player Engineering and 3rd party partners to enable scalability, cost visibility and observability throughout the platform.
- Conceptualize and develop a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the Site Reliability Engineering team.
- Manage expectations for project and team deliverables, manage stakeholder communications, and help drive an effective system of project status tracking.
- Create visibility and confidence in project delivery timelines, as well as a working environment where the team can be focused, efficient, and creative.
- Proactively identify and implement quality and change control procedures to ensure that all executions are complete, errorfree, produced according to established standards and delivered on time.
- Implement oncall and support coverage schedules for live and crown jewel events throughout the year.
- Be fluid and open to change and evolving processes and tools.
- Other duties as assigned.
What You Will Need:
- Experience working in a large enterprise IT setting.
- Strong manager with experience in managing up and managing out when required.
- Strong abstract reasoning and ability to conceptualize systems and processes.
- Strong communication and crossfunctional skills, with the ability to engage, listen, and collaborate with internal departments/teams to align from strategy through execution.
- Engineering background with understanding of EKS and related cloud concepts and underlying technologies
- Detailoriented with strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks and visualize workflows.
- A selfstarter, able to take initiative and work independently.
- Highly motivated with strong work ethic and an aptitude for problemsolving
- Collaborative working style and teamplayer attitude
- Strong decisionmaking abilities along with creative, project and time management skills
Nice To Have, But Not a Dealbreaker:
- BS or equivalent