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.
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 the team in achieving them.
Design, implement, and support key infrastructure, including automated attack infrastructure deployment, isolated identity and productivity environments, and secure data storage.
COGS Optimization & Cost Efficiency
Define and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., right-sizing instances, leveraging spot instances, optimizing storage, etc.).
Leadership & Collaboration
What You Bring
Must-Have Qualifications
Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with expertise in cost management and scaling strategies.
Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
Nice-to-Have
Blackpoint Cyber welcomes and encourages applications from qualified individuals of all races, colors, religions, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.
For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans, a robust 401k plan, Discretionary Time Off, and other minor perks. International employees receive competitive benefits in accordance with local market standards and applicable country requirements.
Blackpoint believes all employees should share in the company’s success – equity participation is available to employees globally, with program details varying by location and employment structure.
