Director of SRE at Blackpoint Cyber
$190,000–$220,000
Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A leadership role heading a global Site Reliability Engineering team at a cybersecurity company. The position covers cloud infrastructure design and operations across major providers, reliability and observability practices, and cloud cost optimization. The role blends hands-on technical work with people management, and involves exploring AI and modern SRE tooling to improve uptime. Suited to a seasoned infrastructure leader with a strong engineering background.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 1,850–4,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Director of SRE' and carries explicit people-management scope (leading a global team of SREs and DevOps engineers, 5+ years managing an SRE team), making 11-3021 the primary SOC. The alt SOC 15-1252 reflects the JD's explicit expectation of continued hands-on infrastructure and coding contributions.
Advertised as 'Director', which maps to Principal on the advertised-seniority scale; however, the actual scope — managing one functional team with standard SRE responsibilities — is consistent with a Senior-level people-manager role rather than an org-wide technical authority.
The cloud-platform requirement lists AWS, Azure, or GCP as interchangeable ('or'); AWS is named first and is the primary, with Azure and GCP captured as alternatives.
Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk) are listed as examples under a single requirement; Prometheus is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives. Grafana is also separately called out in the R&D/tools narrative (Grafana IRN, Loki, Alloy) and listed again under Nice-to-Have context, so it is also emitted as a preferred skill.
SLA/SLO/SLIs are described as 'will be valuable' within the Must-Have section — this is softened language within a required block; treated as preferred given the explicit hedge.
AI tooling landscape awareness appears in the Must-Have section but names no specific tool; omitted from the skills list as it names no concrete technology.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): people management.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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