Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Barracuda Networks
$180-240k
Office located in Chelmsford, MA
Cybersecurity solutions
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Cybersecurity solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-240k
Office located in Chelmsford, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To protect and support its customers for life.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 12+ years in infrastructure, cloud operations, or SRE roles, including 5+ years in leadership positions managing distributed teams
- Cloud Expertise: Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure architectures, security, and operations in large-scale SaaS environments
- AI & Automation: Experience implementing AI-driven observability, predictive analytics, and autonomous remediation systems
- Infrastructure as Code: Proven success implementing such as Terraform or CloudFormation at enterprise scale
- CI/CD & Automation: Advanced experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)
- Container Orchestration: Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) and containerized workloads
- Observability & Resilience: Strong background in Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and APM tools; experience designing self-healing systems
- Programming: Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for automation and tooling
- Leadership Skills: Exceptional ability to lead globally distributed teams, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and drive cultural change
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Professional and Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD) preferred
What the job involves
- We are seeking a strategic and visionary Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), in the Cloud Operations group, to lead global reliability initiatives across Barracuda’s SaaS portfolio
- You will oversee a distributed team of Site Reliability Engineers and partner closely with Product Engineering, Security & Compliance, and other Cloud Operations teams to ensure our platforms are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient
- This role will also drive AI-powered automation and agentic systems adoption to transform reliability operations
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute Barracuda’s global SRE strategy, aligning reliability goals with business objectives and customer SLAs
- Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in availability, latency, performance, and cost optimization across all cloud services
- AI & Agentic Systems Integration: Implement AI-driven observability and anomaly detection for proactive incident prevention; deploy agentic automation systems to manage routine operational tasks, optimize cloud resources, and accelerate remediation workflows; explore LLM-based runbooks and autonomous agents for incident triage and root cause analysis
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Security, and FinOps teams to embed reliability into product design and delivery pipelines
- Architecture & Governance: Influence architectural decisions for reliability, disaster recovery, and observability systems; ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards
- Automation & Tooling: Champion Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD automation at scale using Terraform, Cloud Formation, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins
- Incident & Risk Management: Facilitate incident response protocols, conduct executive-level postmortems, and implement proactive risk mitigation strategies
- Service Level Management: Define and enforce SLIs and SLOs across global services; report reliability metrics to executive leadership
- Team Development: Build and mentor a high-performing SRE organization; foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and collaboration across regions
- Cloud Optimization: Lead initiatives for cost governance and performance tuning in AWS and Azure environments
- Executive Communication: Present reliability roadmaps, KPIs, and risk assessments to senior leadership and stakeholders
- A leadership role where your vision shapes the reliability of mission-critical systems
- Opportunities for career growth and executive visibility
- The chance to work on cutting-edge cloud reliability challenges at scale
Our take
In an increasingly online world, with email hacks and data leaks becoming more and more common, cyber security is more important than ever. Barracuda aims to provide this with its comprehensive suite of security software.
It offers a number of packages, focusing on email security, app and cloud protection, network security and data protection. By investing heavily in R&D and product development, Barracuda is able to keep on top of new (and increasingly prevalent) email phishing scams. Its incorporated XDR capabilities also close security gaps generated by the rise in hybrid and remote working.
Barracuda is an established player within the cyber security market, boasting over 200,000 enterprise customers including the likes of Shiseido, Carrefour and Accor. It was acquired in 2022 by KKR, a global investment firm, which has allowed it to further improve its product, grow its team and expand its marketing reach.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2017
$0.8m
GRANT
Oct 2009
$5.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $72.4m
Company benefits
- High-quality health benefits
- Retirement Plan with employer match
- Career-growth opportunities
- Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits
- Volunteer opportunities
- Equity, in the form of non-qualifying options
Company HQ
San Tomas, Campbell, CA
Leadership
Zachary Levow
(Co-Founder, Executive VP & CTO)Previously co-founded Affinity Path and Spinway, as well as working in Software Development and Architectural Software Design for Sun Microsystems, Cadence Design Systems and Motorola.
Rohit Ghai
(CEO)Independent Board Member at MHC Software. Former CEO and Board Member at RSA Security, Independent Board Member at Everbridge, COO then President of the Enterprise Content Division of Dell Technologies.
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