Senior Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Ping Identity

Lead Dedicated Tenant Site Reliability Engineering organization at Ping Identity, focusing on service delivery and operational excellence. Steer complex initiatives across multiple teams and engineering functions.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,100 - $243,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a Dedicated Tenant Site Reliability Engineering organization spanning multiple teams and layers of leadership, with accountability for service delivery, operational excellence, and execution across complex initiatives.
Define and drive complex cross-functional programs with internal and external stakeholders, coordinating work across engineering and adjacent organizations to deliver business and customer outcomes.
Build, structure, and grow the organization to meet company objectives, including staffing plans, onboarding approaches, talent development, leadership coaching, and culture creation across multiple teams and organizational levels.
Set direction for how Dedicated Tenant services are delivered and operated, improving consistency, speed of decision making, and alignment across services and teams.
Establish and use organizational metrics to understand performance, identify trends, make trade-offs, and continuously improve reliability, productivity, and delivery outcomes.
Oversee the operational capabilities required to run large-scale production services, including infrastructure automation, observability, capacity planning, incident management, and analysis of complex system behavior and performance issues.
Partner closely with SRE, Security, Development, and other company functions to proactively manage dependencies, communicate release and operational activities, and improve the effectiveness of how services are delivered.
Drive the evolution of software delivery and operational strategies for your area, ensuring teams execute with strong release, deployment, and operations discipline that aligns with business objectives and organizational structure.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience leading a software-focused Site Reliability Engineering, cloud operations, or comparable engineering organization through multiple leaders and teams in a global environment.
Demonstrated success defining and executing complex initiatives with external stakeholders and coordinating programs across engineering and adjacent organizations.
Deep expertise in software delivery and operational strategy, including release, deployment, operations, dependency management, and organizational execution across multiple projects in parallel.
Strong experience operating high-volume or business-critical production services with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, observability, and automation.
Experience developing, maintaining, and administering modern infrastructure tooling with a strong emphasis on infrastructure as code and public cloud provisioning.
Experience with cloud-native and platform technologies such as Kubernetes, Git-based workflows, and modern observability and automation tooling.
Strong understanding of security design principles and the operational realities of infrastructure, networking, and failure modes in distributed systems.
Excellent communication, organizational leadership, and talent development skills, with the ability to mentor managers and directors while building a strong and effective culture.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
Parental Leave
Progressive Healthcare Options
Retirement Programs
Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as CodeCloud OperationsRelease ManagementDeployment StrategiesDependency ManagementOperational ExcellenceCapacity PlanningIncident ManagementPerformance AnalysisAutomation Tooling

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationOrganizational LeadershipMentoringCulture CreationTalent Development