About the Job

The Red Hat Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Director, Site Reliability Engineering to join our team. Red Hat SRE is responsible for our flagship managed OpenShift cloud service offerings: ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS), ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift), and OSD (OpenShift Dedicated) on GCP, which are used by Red Hat’s largest customers in enterprise, high tech, and the public sector. As a Director of SRE, you’ll lead a region of SRE teams (both managers and senior engineering leads) in the development and operations of our managed OpenShift services.

Red Hat SRE is a growing, globally-based fast-paced team inside the world's Open Source leader with constant opportunities to learn new skills and innovate new solutions to meet our customers' demands. As a leader and face of this team to external customers and account teams in your region, you'll directly contribute to Red Hat's success in the rapidly growing Kubernetes-as-a-service market.

What You'll Do

• Hire, develop, and retain SRE Managers and SRE engineering leads, developing and operating Red Hat’s managed OpenShift service offerings

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  Coach Managers and engineering leads on SRE principles: automation, toil reduction, and root cause analysis

• Manage high-visibility project delivery, including estimation, schedule, risks, and dependencies

• As the face of SRE in your region, meet with customers in pre-sales and post-sales situations, supporting deep-dive conversations on product capabilities and escalation / problem resolution surrounding incidents

• Design processes and communication norms that facilitate coordination across a fast-moving, fast-growing, diverse global team

• Lead your team through frequent changes in organization, process, and technology commensurate with a high growth cloud service in a competitive market

• Resolve customer issues in cooperation with Red Hat's global customer support team

• Participate in a periodic 24x7 management escalation on-call rotation

• Design organizational structures to support a global team experiencing rapid growth

• Negotiate priorities and tradeoffs with product management and engineers

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years experience managing engineering teams

• 4+ years managing engineering managers

• 4+ years leading distributed, remote teams working across multiple time zones

• Ability to discuss complex technical issues with SREs, product managers and less-technical stakeholders, including customers and senior leaders

• 8+ years with project management methodologies such as Agile Scrum, Kanban

• 1+ years of experience with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure

• 1+ year(s) of experience with Kubernetes is a plus

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The salary range for this position is $192,400.00 - $327,110.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. 

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Opportunities are open. Join us.

Benefits
●    Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
●    Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
●    Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
●    Retirement 401(k) with employer match
●    Paid time off and holidays
●    Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
●    Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
●    Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Red Hat
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