About the role
Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learnings to bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode, fueled by a recent $190m series C round. Why Blackpoint? Ready to help give some hackers hell? At Blackpoint Cyber, we fight unfair fights, eliminating threats before they strike. Built by former US Department of Defense and Intelligence security experts, our mission is to provide absolute and unified Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services to organizations worldwide 24 by 7, 365 days a year. As a Director of SRE, you will lead the global infrastructure, reliability, and cost optimization team supporting Blackpoint Cyber’s mission-critical services. You will be responsible for the SRE function, ensuring the scalability, availability, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure, while also supporting finops efforts to maintain cost efficiency. You will also help design the next generation of SRE at Blackpoint, helping innovate with cutting edge technologies and AI tooling to help maintain uptime and availability around the clock. Company Culture We value high-quality execution, ownership, and integrity—principles that are never compromised. Our team is collaborative, energetic, and thrives in a high-performance culture, continuously growing by tackling the toughest challenges in cybersecurity. This role requires strong leadership, hands-on infrastructure expertise, and a deep understanding of cost-effective scaling strategies. You will work closely with engineering, support, security, and product teams to ensure our systems are resilient, secure, and cost-efficient. Key
Responsibilities Infrastructure & Reliability Lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure). Establish SRE best practices, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning. Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring quick detection and resolution of reliability issues. Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual intervention through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines. Lead a team of SREs, applying Blackpoint Cyber's management values of Coach, Model, Care, in defining business-critical outcomes, creating action plans, and supporting
