Vice President Site Reliability Engineering (Data Centers)

About Galaxy Galaxy is a digital assets and AI infrastructure company, building and investing across the two forces reshaping the economy: finance moving onchain, and the compute that powers AI. Our digital assets platform offers institutional access to trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. Alongside this, we develop and operate data center infrastructure that powers AI and high-performance computing, working to meet the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S. Galaxy is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Additional information about Galaxy's businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com Disclaimer: hubs.li/Q022Cvpy0

Galaxy

Galaxy (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and AI infrastructure: We grow the economy that runs on code.

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galaxy.com

501-1,000 employees

Financial Services

New York, NY

2018

Public Company

74k LinkedIn followers

Raised $8.7B

• We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.
• Seek Excellence.
• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
• Build Dream Teams.
• Automation Platform Leadership: Oversee a specialized SRE team focused on the design, deployment, and maintenance of automation toolsets as well as the systems they interact with.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Governance: Establish and enforce standards for IaC to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments across an entire infrastructure ecosystem. Strong proficiency in Terraform is required.
• Configuration Management: Lead the strategy for automated configuration and state management, ensuring Ansible playbooks and Packer image pipelines are optimized for both Windows, Linux, and ESXi Platforms.
• Monitoring & Observability: Manage the monitoring and health of the automation platforms themselves. Implement SLIs/SLOs to ensure the "tools that build the servers" are highly available and performant.
• Lifecycle Management: Drive the automated lifecycle of both physical and virtual assets, from initial template creation/deployment to automated patching, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Custom Tooling & Scripting: Lead the development of custom scripts and internal providers (Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash) to provide better insights and tooling for our systems.
• Collaboration: Outside of the automation team you will need to be able to collaborate and foster workflows alongside the rest of the Datacenter team and be able to facilitate needs for the team as a whole.
• Capacity & Performance: Analyze system behavior and resource utilization in virtual environments to optimize the performance of automated deployments.
• Mentorship & Growth: Provide technical guidance and career mentorship to SREs, fostering a culture of "automate-first" and continuous improvement.

Required

• A collaborative and strategic leader with deep hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and infrastructure Automation. You are comfortable steering the vision for an enterprise automation roadmap while remaining technical enough to dive into the code. You treat infrastructure as a product, ensuring that your automation workflows are as reliable as the services they deploy. You have a proven track record of managing complex hybrid environments and are proactive in building self-service platforms that enhance engineering velocity and system stability.
• 6-10 years’ experience in Infrastructure, SRE or DevOps, specifically focused on infrastructure automation at scale.
• Deep proficiency with Terraform (providers, modules, state management) and Ansible (roles, playbooks, Tower/AWX).
• Hands-on experience with Image Creation (i.e. Packer, Ansible, SCCM) to build standardized, hardened images for both Windows and Linux in hybrid environments.
• Strong experience managing and automating virtual platforms such as VMware (vSphere/vCenter) as well as Cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
• High-level scripting skills in mediums such as Python, Go, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Experience with observability tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana) to monitor infrastructure health and automation telemetry.
• Good understanding of Network topology and design as well as experience with platforms such as Juniper Networks or Palo Alto.
• Strong mastery of Git (branching strategies, PR workflows) and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions).
• Equal comfort managing, troubleshooting, and tuning performance for both Windows Server and Linux.

Preferred

• Previous work experience includes notable periods of team leadership and or management.
• Experience with IAM platforms such as Entra ID, Active Directory, and Okta.
• Experience with Storage solutions both block based and object based hosted either on-prem (HP Alletra, EMC, DDN) or in cloud (S3, Azure Blob).
• Storage Backup/DR administration and management with Commvault or Veeam.

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Flexible Time Off (i.e. unlimited paid vacation days)
• Company paid Holidays (14)
• Company paid sick leave
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Ginger
• Free daily snacks in-office
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Benefits may vary depending on location.