Staff Deploy Software Engineer
General Motors
Kubernetes
Senior Director of Engineering Excellence, Reliability
CDK Global
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $230,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudSDLC
About the role
- Lead initiatives to improve developer productivity across the organization
- Develop and execute engineering maturity models that benchmark teams and guide them through improvements in automation, observability, incident response, test strategy, and deployment readiness
- Identify systemic bottlenecks and lead cross-functional efforts to remove them, driving measurable gains in engineering velocity and quality
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to embed productivity metrics and maturity targets into quarterly planning cycles
- Champion Site Reliability Engineering principles across the organization—implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to manage system reliability effectively
- Guide Systems Engineering best practices across scalability, observability, automation, and cost optimization
- Define, own, and deliver the strategy and roadmap for multiple COEs: Product SRE, Systems Engineering, DevSecOps, Release Engineering, and Engineering Metrics
- Build and lead high-performing teams that deliver reliable, scalable, and secure engineering platforms and practices
- Act as a transformation agent—establishing execution frameworks that scale across business units and geographies
- Establish and standardize engineering performance metrics, including but not limited to DORA metrics, MTTR, Team & Developer Productivity
- Drive adoption of metrics across teams to reinforce accountability, continuous improvement, and transparency
- Oversee the development and scaling of CI/CD pipelines using Harness that are secure, automated, and optimized for frequent and stable deployments
- Embed DevSecOps principles into every stage of the SDLC
- Lead and mature Release Engineering practices to ensure release integrity, rollback safety, and compliance
- Lead the governance of AI/ML tooling in software development, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and alignment with enterprise strategy
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience
- Proven track record in delivering engineering productivity, tooling, or platform transformation initiatives with measurable results
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, observability, automation, and modern DevOps/SRE practices
- Demonstrated success building and operationalizing technical governance and engineering maturity frameworks
- Strong strategic mindset combined with tactical execution skills; thrives in high-change, high-growth environments
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to influence across engineering, product, EIT and executive teams
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401K Matching Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
engineering maturity modelsautomationobservabilityincident responsetest strategydeployment readinessCI/CDDevSecOpsSLOsSLIs
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationstrategic mindsettactical executioncommunicationinfluencetransformation agentaccountabilitycontinuous improvementtransparency
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